David Lennon

Content Preview

Newsday/Optimum Online® subscribers click here for full access
Not a Newsday or Optimum Online® subscriber? Click here

Lennon: Phillies' Amaro has compassion for Omar

David Lennon

Newsday columnist David Lennon

David Lennon has been a staff writer for Newsday since

Not everyone in Philadelphia gloated about the misery in Flushing this past summer. As the defending world champions extended their division lead and the Mets' disabled list grew longer and longer by the day, Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. would fire off another text message, telling Omar Minaya to keep his head up.

Despite their positions on different sides of the New York-Philly...

newsday.com is now available at no charge to Newsday and Optimum Online® subscribers. To continue reading, please log in or register now.

  • Already
    registered on
    newsday.com?
    log in
  • Already a subscriber
    to Newsday or
    Optimum Online®?
    get access
  • Not a Newsday
    or Optimum Online®
    subscriber?
    click here

buy & sell it