A couple years ago Mets general manager Omar Minaya was criticized for focusing on Latino baseball players while constructing his baseball team. This became an overblown controversy in the sports media as so many things often do for quite a while. Personally, I think the whole thing was nonsense for the most part. Minaya wants good baseball players on his team and believe or not, many good baseball players happen to be from Latin countries. Crazy that Minaya would want to put together a good, talented baseball team right? Although if one were to follow a team like the Washington Nationals or Kansas City Royals they might think that it is crazy.
During a late summer evening last year I had Mexico Jones over at my house and I asked him to take a look at the Mets jersey's and tell me what he thought about them. The Mets were having Latino Night or Fiesta Latina, I forget what it was called. To mark the occasion they were normal Mets jerseys with one notable exception, the word "Los" was put in front of Mets so it wrote "Los Mets". I thought this was funny because of the whole aforementioned scenario. This is certainly not the way to avoid all that garbage ever coming up again.
I bring this up because when I heard that tonight at Shea would be another Latino Night/Fiesta Latina I naturally thought back to that fateful night and those fateful jerseys. I looked up at my television to see Johan Santana long-tossing in the outfield and what else was he wearing but a "Los Mets" jersey.
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