Mets vice president of player development Tony Bernazard will interview for the vacant Seattle Mariners GM position sometime this week, according to the Seattle Times.
Other candidates for the Seattle gig are Arizona Diamondbacks assistant GM Peter Woodfork; Jerry Dipoto, Diamondbacks director of player personnel; Kim Ng, Los Angeles Dodgers assistant GM and Tony LaCava, the assistant GM for the Toronto Blue Jays.
Tony Bernazard, a New York Mets executive, recently challenged one of club's minor league teams to a fight during a postgame clubhouse tirade, the New York Daily News reported, citing multiple sources with ties to the team.
Bernazard, the team's vice president for player development, pulled off his shirt and challenged the Double-A Binghamton Mets in the tirade, about 10 days before the All-Star break. He in particular targeted middle infield prospect Jose Coronado, according to the report.
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The Daily News reported on Tuesday that at a recent game at Citi Field, Bernazard, who wanted a seat behind home plate that was occupied by an Arizona Diamondbacks scout, unleashed a profanity-laced tirade against a subordinate who suggested he wait until the half-inning was over to take the seat.
As you reflect on what happened to this organization during and after last year's GM interview process, always remember what didn't.
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msb - July 22, 2009
You are wonderful.
royalcurve - July 22, 2009
That is stunning
Like an episode of COPS.
section331 - July 22, 2009
Why, what do you do when subordinates ask you to wait for something?
waldo rojas - July 22, 2009
I would have loved it if he kicked Armstrong's ass during his interview.
Sec 108 - July 22, 2009
A shirtless, swinging Bernazard
should be the upper right left picture at Amazin Avenue.
Shawk - July 22, 2009
that's upper right left, y'all.
dumbass.
Shawk - July 22, 2009
Agreed
James Kannengieser - July 22, 2009
There are a lot of idiots in this world.
M'sin.. - July 22, 2009
That deserves a rec, it is the cleverest statement ever.
M'sin.. - July 22, 2009
To be a fly on the wall during that interview.
Armstrong: “Say a player to getting out of line, how would you handle the situation and help straighten the player out?”
Bernazard: “Is that even a question?! I’d kick his ass!”
Mariner Melee - July 22, 2009
When I first read the Headline I thought Yaay, Z got us a shortstop, but no.
InSpokane - July 22, 2009
Me too
I was expecting a trade :(
bluemax - July 22, 2009
'Regular News' was a giveaway that it wasn't a trade.
EnglishMariner - July 22, 2009
He took off his shirt first! I love this guy
Kermit. - July 22, 2009
Don't wanna get blood on the Armani shirts
Sec 108 - July 22, 2009
Especially after you call Jose Coronado a pussy.
Llewdor - July 22, 2009
Or any professional athlete, for that matter.
Unless you’re Dana White. He can get away with that.
Llewdor - July 22, 2009
I've always gotten a kick out of 'take my shirt off to fight' guy.
Typically whenever a group of 3 or more of them gathers in an outdoor setting the shirts also come off irregardless of weather or other circumstances. There must be some male bonding/camaraderie going on that the rest of us will never understand. At least that’s what I hope it is.
Mets = comedy
Big Jared - July 22, 2009
I usually take my shirt off to clear the room these days.
Sec 108 - July 22, 2009
rowr?
pdb - July 22, 2009
More like the stragglers won't leave the party so I strip to my boxers and Voila!
Emoty house.
Sec 108 - July 22, 2009
I usually just start vomiting on guests if I want them to leave
pdb - July 22, 2009
To the vomitorium!
Sec 108 - July 22, 2009
Vomi-arium
Slurvey - July 22, 2009
South Park reference?
Pessimistic Optimist - July 22, 2009
Just because you don't like my cooking is no reason to rename my kitchen
pdb - July 22, 2009
John Keister used to do a routine about getting party guests to leave that involved playing Bobby Goldsboro in rotation.
Nothing like “Watching Scotty grow” to clear a room.
msb - July 22, 2009
Emoty house?
People start emoting at the temple that is your body?
“I cannot have him, so I cut myself!”
“Life is futile and meaningless if I cannot have that.”
marc w - July 22, 2009
And there's an awesome Smiths-driven soundtrack playing in the background
pdb - July 22, 2009
Joy Division
And Sec 108’s like the reincarnated Ian Curtis, all spastic dancing in his skivvies.
There are tears.
marc w - July 22, 2009
Now I know the theme for the Halloween party we're throwing this year
pdb - July 22, 2009
I will be A Certain Ratio!
royalcurve - July 22, 2009
.
msb - July 22, 2009
He wrote and performed one of my favorite jokes ever
which he talks about here. Still trying to find video of it.
pdb - July 22, 2009
I loved emo phillips....
marc w - July 22, 2009
I am so glad you were the one to pounce on that typo.
Sec 108 - July 22, 2009
I can't tell if you're being serious or not.
marc w - July 22, 2009
My money is on serious? Because you were funny about it instead of a dickhole?
You’re on fire, especially with the poetry
Kermit. - July 22, 2009
Serious 100%. Kermit would have said something half as funny
and it would have 20 recs by now.
Sec 108 - July 23, 2009
That's funny
I had a roommate who once, when a party was running too late and he wanted people to leave, stripped buck naked and sat on the couch (legs crossed) watching TV on mute. There were a lot of people, and mostly they were trashed so no one a big to do about it but everyone was gone within an hour (everyone being about 60 people).
Bearskin Rugburn - July 22, 2009
Are you kidding? Guy's a badass.
I bet if he had been hired Rob Johnson would have had his fucking head kicked in.
I Lick Squirrels - July 22, 2009
Another good move by Z:
I suspect he took Dave’s advice and made a deal with Jays so they’d trade Halladay before he faces the M’s!
Plus half an expected win for us!
Attractive Nuisance - July 22, 2009
It's kind of weird because
Like a day or two after Dave posted that, on ESPN it said the Blue Jays were looking to trade Halladay by the 28th.
Pessimistic Optimist - July 22, 2009
If he doesn't land here or in St. Louis I will kill myself
Poochie - July 22, 2009
pics or it didn't happen
pdb - July 22, 2009
I get your recs
seattlebruin - July 22, 2009
My dying wish will be to be buried with my recs
Poochie - July 22, 2009
The true question, is what does a rec look like?
M'sin.. - July 22, 2009
A bit like Kosh when he removed his encounter suit.
EnglishMariner - July 22, 2009
Who is Kosh?
M'sin.. - July 22, 2009
Who are you?
Graham MacAree - July 22, 2009
Never ask that question.
EnglishMariner - July 22, 2009
.
http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2008/6/27/560477/6-27-open-game-thread#7039006
Poochie - July 22, 2009
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Aaron Campeau - July 22, 2009
I was looking for an excuse to post this
silliness
Eyeball Kid - July 22, 2009
I am sad.
I was anticipating Brian Blessed.
msb - July 22, 2009
Poker chips
Robert - July 23, 2009
Reminds me of the story of Ed Orgeron introducing himself to his new players at Ole Miss a few years ago.
Link
Teej - July 22, 2009
Ed Orgeron is one of the most amazing people I have met in my life
bluemax - July 22, 2009
And people wonder why I think football is nothing but faux-macho sublimated homosexuality run rampant
pdb - July 22, 2009
There but for the grace of Armstrong and Lincoln go we.
Chuck and Howard have done plenty to deserve derision, but they really hit one out of the park with Z.
Can you imagine if this happened to us a year ago? Bavasi bursts into the locker room and challenges the Aquasox to a fight. I would have been rooting hard for the players to beat his bald head in.
PDXTai - July 22, 2009
It would make for an awesome .gif.
M'sin.. - July 22, 2009
But it wouldn't be cool at all.
M'sin.. - July 22, 2009
Except that Bavasi was known as a very nice guy who was easy to work for
just horrible at making baseball-related decisions
seattlebruin - July 22, 2009
Interesting piece about Roger Hansen's expanded role in minor league evaluation
from Kirby Arnold
msb - July 22, 2009
Actually. I would love to see Z throw down.
Maybe beat some sense into Halman so he figures out what the hell a strike zone is.
SethGrandpa - July 22, 2009
What you gonna do?
joof - July 22, 2009
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