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Marmalard, Dead! Minaya, Dead! Manuel, Dead!The Mets have told Omar Minaya and Jerry Manuel that they're done as GM and manager, respectively. But not respectably....

Omar Minaya Flies Coach, Gets HeckledThe beleaguered Mets GM probably figured 36,000 feet high would be a safe place to escape his critics and watch 27 Dresses on a 10-inch screen. He was wrong....

The 2009 New York Mets: A Season Of FailureThe New York Mets are not the worst team in baseball. They are not even the most ineptly run franchise in their own division. Yet, their 2009 campaign may have forever redefined the concept of losing....

Of All The Horrible Moves The NHL Has Made, This Is...Maybe Not Even Top 10

Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and the blogosphere to bring you everything you need to know to start your day....

Omar Minaya: Mix Master No More

It was just two years ago that Omar Minaya was a Sports Illustrated cover boy and subject of a fawning profile in which he was referred to simply as O. As in: Oh my, how things have changed....

Minaya Sort Of Apologizes

Omar Minaya called another press conference last night, and in this one he managed to not entirely shoot off his own foot, which probably had something to do with his boss, COO Jeff Wilpon, standing ominously at his side....

Minaya Calls Out <em>Daily News</em> Reporter; Mets' Season Descends Further Into Farce

Earlier today, Omar Minaya addressed the firing of brawlin' Tony Bernazard, the Mets' VP for player development, and used the occasion to humiliate New York Daily News reporter Adam Rubin, whom Minaya accused of angling for a front-office job....

Who'll Be The First Baseball General Manager To Get Publicly Smeared?

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