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Willie: Yeah, obviously it's the players who suck.
Mmmm, that's good managing!
Seriously, if Willie doesn't have an inflated belief about his role in winning or losing games, as most managers and team personnel and fans do, what does he think his role is as manager?
In other news, the Mets just lost their latest starting LF -- Marlon Anderson got hurt running to first.
Back to the drawing board in left. Maybe they can get Jay Payton from the Orioles instead of signing Bonds.
While that may be part of it, it has to be noted that he did turn down the offer of a job in Cincinatti because it didn't pay as well as he would have liked. If I remember correctly, he made a crack about his World Series share with the Yankees being worth more. I doubt that public statement did much to help his cause.
People are still confused about this?
And then what? Here are some of the candidates I've heard mentioned:
1) Davey Johnson: I think this is probably a pipe dream, given how long he's been out of commission. I don't know that he has many connections remaining in the Mets' organization. As successful as he was in the late 1980s, it's also easy to forget what a mess the Mets' clubhouse was by the time he was fired.
2) Lee Mazzilli: Maz is a sharp guy who knows the rulebook really well, but he didn't do antyhing particularly eye-opening in Baltimore. Is he still popular with Mets fans today? That might be a factor from a PR standpoint.
3) Wally Backman: I'm starting to hear his name more and more. The Mets would have to forgive his past legal problems and the belief that he has been blackballed by organized ball. Backman is about as intense as Billy Martin was on a bad day, so it will be interesting to see his reaction the first time that Reyes (or whomever) doesn't run out a ground ball. Backman and Billy Wagner in the same clubhouse? Interesting.
4) Ken Oberkfell: He's had success as a manager in the Mets' system, but I know virtually nothing about him in terms of style and approach. He's the only one of the prominent candidates who never played for the Mets, for whatever it's worth.
5) Howard Johnson: I'm having a hard time with this one. He never struck me as a particularly cerebral player, and he was suspended from his coaching duties at Binghamton a couple of years for reasons that I never really grasped. But he is on the coaching staff, he's young, and does have a connection to some winning Mets teams. I wonder what Sparky Anderson would think about HoJo as a manager.
Yeah; Maz's Baltimore performance left a lot to be desired.
Weeeee!!!
In his defense, he also homered earlier.
Sure, but he doesn't need a defense; the Mets do.
Tatis sucks, has played 31 games in half a decade, and isn't a LF.
Really?
How are 6-10?
Wait a few days and I'm sure John McLaren will be available.
You mean the hispanic Jerry Manuel?
Mad Dog Russo said that Manuel would be perfect to lead the hispanics on the Mets..."since he's hispanic himself!" (Manuel was born in Geo. and as far as I know is as hispanic as Moxie, Barry, and Charlie Manuel)
BTA, in Dogspeak...Vladimir Guerrero owns the Russian Tea Room.
Mad Dog Russo said that Manuel would be perfect to lead the hispanics on the Mets..."since he's hispanic himself!" (Manuel was born in Geo. and as far as I know is as hispanic as Moxie, Barry, and Charlie Manuel)
Keith Hernandez would be perfect to lead the Mexicans.
Beyond that, Willie is a goner and should be.
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