Daily Dose- Wednesday July 29th

No controversy every really dies out in the spots blogosphere and talk radio until the next controversy comes along to take over the minds of those in the media. So while Omar Minaya’s press conference is fresh in most people’s minds the talk of that horrible moment in Mets history will be the most talked about issue as opposed to the mini-winning streak that may be a big tease or a big last minute push. Suddenly everyone realizes that there’s plenty of time for the Mets to salvage this season.
Mike Vaccaro writes that now is the time for the Wilpons to act like leaders and right the ship.

I’ve said this already but, the problems the Mets have had over this season shows how horribly structured this organization is at the top most levels where friends are given positions and hold on to positions not because they earned it, but because of relationships they have been able to forge over time. Its time that the Wilpons took a stand. Either fire Minaya and put a guy in that will change the organization ladder or make sure that Minaya changes it; either way, change must come.


Yesterday the world was pulled in again into the Brett Favre retirement vacuum when he announced to the world that he was staying retired. Well, for now. Tom Powers of the St Paul Pioneer Press says, uhh, so now what?

I hope that the Vikings are the last team to be sucked into this Brett Favre nonsense. He has affected two franchises already with this garbage and sent another team for a ride, supposedly the team he wanted to go to all along when he left Green Bay, and said no before even putting on the helmet. While its everyone’s right to change their minds, I think Brett has lost that right in the public’s mind. It’s a shame. While ESPN was playing Favre’s last completion, TD, etc, how many fans were actually dumb enough to believe that those would be the last images we saw of Brett Favre? I’ve come to believe that Favre doesn’t so much love the game as much as he loves the attention that it brings him. I don’t think its about money for Favre because he can make it doing other things in retirement, but its about the attention he gets and he’s addicted to it. Its sad however, because we’ll remember him for moving from team to team as he was remembered for moving around in the pocket and scrambling to make spectacular throws.
As for the Vikings, let’s just hope Tarvaris Jackson finally fulfills the promise that he showed somebody in some mini camp or else, Jeff George is feeling better at 42 than he did at 25…uhh yeah.

Speaking of annoying news that just won’t go away, anybody want Roy Halladay? Anybody? Because apparently the Phillies aren’t going to do this even though it makes perfect sense for them. Gordon Edes of Yahoo sports is saying that the Boston Red Sox have thrown their hat into the ring now that the Yankees appear to be unbeatable and have added Clay Buchholz and a few other prospects for the ace pitcher who could be the deciding factor on a World Series team. Team sources from the Blue Jays and Red Sox dismissed that rumor kinda. Stay tuned the deadline is only two days away.

In my mind, making a deal for Halladay is the same as making a deal for Johan Santana. Holding on to prospects in hopes that they could be better than what they could be getting is hard to fathom in fan’s eyes. When you look at it from an organizational standpoint, here is the troubling thing: Can you resign this guy? If not, then you gave up three cheap prospects you were going to have control over the next 5 years for a loaner who left with perhaps not even getting you into the playoffs. The Red Sox have one of the deepest farm systems, so letting Buchholz go to the Jays would not be the dumbest move seeing as how he doesn’t have a place in the Sox rotation right now.
Of course the most logical destination is Philly for both the Jays and the Phillies seeing as how Philly’s pitching situation is kind of dicey and the Jays need to ship him out of the AL and more importantly the AL East. Sometimes common sense is not enough to make these things work.