LAS VEGAS — Omar Minaya — once the Mets’ star general manager, then a Citi Field expatriate and now a Flushing/Corona Jedi Master — offered Brodie Van Wagenen some counsel heading into his first winter meetings, the Mets’ rookie GM revealed Monday.
“Omar told me to pace myself,” Van Wagenen said. “But I didn’t listen to him.”
Given the many ways one could interpret that when discussing four days here in Sin City, it behooved Van Wagenen to detail precisely what he meant: “I don’t sleep very much, and I probably talk to too many people too often.