Showing posts with label Willie Randolph. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Willie Randolph. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

The Apple Uncovers Discontinued Mets Ice Cream Flavors

Novelty ice cream flavors are all the rage in sports these days.  The Yankees, Phillies and Eagles all have flavors available in regional stores.  Disgraced Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky even had a flavor named for him which was pulled from the school creamery when it became apparent that he was a jackass. 
This made me curious as to whether any current or past Mets players had any ice cream flavors named after them, so I called around to the major ice cream companies.  As it turns out there have been several failed ice cream flavors based on the Mets.  Here are a few:

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

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.

All articles featured on The Apple are fictitious. No Mets were harmed in the writing of this story. 

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