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Trying to eke out a miracle. (Baseball Insider).(Omar Minaya, general manager of the Montreal Expos)

The Sporting News

| April 01, 2002 | Rosenthal, Ken | COPYRIGHT 2002 Sporting News Publishing Co. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

It's 5:30 a.m., and new Expos general manager Omar Minaya is running late. Normally he reports by 5 to the team's spring training complex in Jupiter, Fla. During his first month, when he had to hire approximately 70 employees faster than you can say "contraction," he often arrived at 4.

This day turns out to be typically chaotic. Minaya, 43, faces the resignation of a valued trainer before dawn, arranges for his wife to fly to Montreal for an afternoon of apartment hunting and conducts a staff meeting to discuss, among other things, the purchases of computers and radar guns. As opening day approaches, the Expos still are without them.

The Expos aren't ...

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