It wasn't a ``thumbs up'' day for Minaya today at Shea.
In summary: “Our goal is to get to the World Series, win the World Series, and continue to win it, but the bottom line is we can’t even get to the playoffs so we need to find a better way to work hard at this. … It’s been two years a row now, but we didn’t get over that hurdle. You never feel good when you get this far and don’t make it.”
This didn’t come out good, but I knew what he meant. He didn’t want to go into immediate rip mode.
On getting over the hurdle: “Why is it we can’t get over that hurdle? I don’t have an answer right now.”
On Jerry Manuel’s status: “We’ll review what we want to do. We’ll discuss his whole status. That’s going to take a couple of days. I don’t see it being done with a day or two. It’s going to happen sooner than later.”
No doubt the bullpen needs to be improved, but he didn’t lay all the blame on the pen:
“I don’t think it’s one area. To put it on one area wouldn’t be fair. You have to ask yourself how can you score five runs this weekend? It’s a team effort.”
Here’s a good place to start:
Every team will suffer unexpected injuries in a given year….starting the season with a guaranteed injury in your starting 5 (El Duque) and another (probably multiple times) in one of your top hitters (Alou) spells NO PLAYOFFS!
um..
how is el duque and alou getting injured UNEXPECTED? it was a forgone conclusion. the question was how many games would they play?
the answer is almost none.
at least Omar stated the obvious. the question now is what are his top 3 priorities?