Mets Plan To Test Robotic Manager Prototype This Season In Minors

You may have seen that IBM Corporation which in the past created Big Blue, a Grand Master caliber chess playing computer program, has adapted it to the TV game Jeopardy. It's called WATSON and has been having success in practice games against some of the greatest Jeopardy champions of all time.

Our investigative reporter Larry Smith has learned that Sandy Alderson, the Mets' GM, has commissioned IBM to further adapt the program for managing a professional baseball team. Not only that, but that the team plans to start using the program - working name HODGES - as early as this spring.
Smith confronted Alderson who agreed to a short interview on the spot.

Former Mets GM Omar Minaya Releases Christmas Album

Omar Minaya is not letting losing his job get him down.  Today at a Manhattan Best Buy, the former Mets GM attended an event to celebrate the release of his first music CD.  The album, entitled Christmas with Minaya and Friends, is a compilation of holiday classics as sung by Omar Minaya.  Joining him on the CD are such former Mets employees as Tony Bernazard, Willie Randolph, Jerry Manuel & others.

The track list contains many modern takes on classic songs such as:

“Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (And He Can Beat You In So Many Ways)”

“It Came Upon A Midnight Clear…and Fired Me”

Featuring Willie Randolph

“Mediocre King Wenceslas”

“Take My Shirt Off & Threaten To Deck The Halls”

Featuring Tony Bernazard

“I Saw Mommy Kissing Adam Rubin”

“What Child Is This…and Why Isn’t He Bunting?”

Featuring Jerry Manuel

“John Maine Got Run Over By A Reindeer”

“The Four Years Of Castillo”

Sung to the tune of The 12 Days Of Christmas

“Last Christmas (I Gave You 36 Million Dollars)”

Duet with Oliver Perez

Christmas with Minaya & Friends hits Best Buy store shelves today.  Next week look for it in your local .99 cent store.

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