Posts Tagged ‘ Arizona Diamondback ’

Backman Hiring Rights a Baseball Wrong

Nov 18th, 2009 | By Joe McDonald | Category: Joe McDonald, New York Mets, Top Story

BROOKLYN, NY – As Wally Backman stood at the podium at the Brooklyn Baseball Gallery at KeySpan Park, you have to wonder what could have been.
If Backman was never fired by the Arizona Diamondback and ultimately blackballed throughout affiliated baseball, would he have become one of the better managers in baseball or would he have [...]



Gabrielle Schoeneweis: The Sad and Tragic News

May 22nd, 2009 | By Jimmy Scott | Category: Jimmy Scott, New York Mets, Top Story

There are four children without a mother tonight.  It doesn’t matter that Scott is a millionaire and it doesn’t matter that the children will be set financially for life.  All they care about is their mother is gone, longer than any road trip their father would ever take.  That is the tragedy here.
This hurts me [...]