pig letter

Jordan Brickman
8 Eliot Street
Corltandt Manor, NY 10567




Dear Mr. Omar Minaya,




I am writing you this letter as a young Mets fan, who would like to steer away from the status quo of Mets fans and praise your efforts as the New York Met’s General Manager. In my opinion, you were overly criticized for the Met’s awful collapse at the end of the season. When the Mets entered September with their huge lead nobody was bashing you, but unexpectedly the team blows a large lead. The team that blew that lead was virtually the same team when September began, when the fans were praising you. I don’t know how other fans can blame Reyes’ poor September (I see it as a down month, as opposed to Reyes suddenly losing all of his talent, see David Wright: April) on you.
I think the problem with Mets fans is they need to find a reason for losing, and once they do they don’t stop blaming that person until something else comes along. In your case they blamed you, Willie Randolph (who I think has done a terrific job since taking over the reins as the manager), and Reyes, when really the entire team is at fault. Mets fans don’t know what they have in this team. This team is very well built. The core players are young and energetic, and the older players are strong veterans who show the young players how to act. Unfortunately, baseball has become a game of numbers and when someone like Carlos Delgado hits only .258 they quickly say he is declining and should be traded. However, what they fail to realize is that in 2004 Delgado hit .269 and people were saying he was declining then; he then followed up his 2004 campaign with back-to-back seasons of 100+ rbi, which you know all about. They also do not realize that Delgado is a model citizen and a great clubhouse leader, taking him out of the clubhouse could have a drastic effect on the roster.
As fans, we tend to look away from the big picture. Since you’ve become the GM you have added a surplus of talent including: Carlos Beltran, Carlos Delgado, Pedro Martinez, Paul LoDuca, Endy Chavez, Billy Wagner, and the list goes on and on and on. All of those players are winners and have helped this club to become one of the elite clubs in baseball the last two years, save September 2007. On top of the obvious ML talent, you have played a huge role in persuading the vital Dominican prospect market to coming to the Mets. In a few years we will realize just how important your Hispanic heritage and influence can be.
In closing, I would like to finish by saying that you should not listen to any criticism coming from Mets fans. You have done an incredible job with this team since coming here. If anything, you have set the bar too high so that whenever you fail it is such a shock that the fans need to pick on you for something. In New York, no one is perfect, just ask Alex Rodriguez.

Mets Fan Forever,
Jordan Brickman