By now, you’ve read a-plenty about Omar Minaya’s Twilight Zone-esque presser yesterday. Why he chose to do this, who knows? But as I said last week, I think Omar’s time as Mets GM should be nearing an end. That’s even more the case after he tossed the NY Daily News’ Adam Rubin squarely under the bus:

“Adam has lobbied for the player development position,” Minaya said. “I scuffled with it early on. I had to think about that.”

Really? This is the path you chose as you sought to deflect attention from your boy, Tony Bernazard, getting the heave-ho? Rubin’s reponse:

As I told the reporters who descended upon me after Minaya left the press conference, I have never, ever, asked Omar Minaya for a job. Or even career advice. Frankly, I’ve never been very close to him.
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The minor-leaguers Bernazard oversaw lived in fear of losing their jobs because they were constantly told they were disposable. How do I know? They told me.

Their parents told me. Others in uniform at the various levels of the Mets told me. Scouts who observed instances told me. Minaya did not identify one piece of inaccurate information in any of The News’ stories.

Monday, after learning about what had happened at the press conference, one of the whistleblowers in the Binghamton incident summed it up best: “You didn’t get Tony fired. Tony did. Don’t let them take the focus off that.”

That last comment is spot on: Tony Bernazard was a major problem for this team. So is Minaya. One’s gone. The other needs to go, too. And soon.

And feel free to watch the trainwreck here.

As a follow-up, check out Shysterball’s essay on the subject.