Newsday: Best: Gary Carter: still talking . . .

Carter has more pills than Carter has pills.

-Gary Carter on his belief that he would not have a chance to manage the New York Mets under Omar Minaya if the position was open.

“Of course the New York media will blow it up that way. It was one simple question, ‘Will you be interested?’ I said, ‘Well yeah, if something happens’ I didn’t say,‘Oh, gosh, yeah I’m campaigning, and I want that job!’ Knowing the way that the Mets are anyway and the regime that is in place with Omar Minaya, I don’t even think there is going to be a chance if anything happens with Willie. I think the next guy in line is Jerry Manuel.”

-Gary Carter on his feeling of being disenfranchised since the Montreal Expos moved to Washington.

“I was in the organization and I feel in some ways that I am a bit disenfranchised because my Montreal Expos, that I played for 11 years and broadcasted for four years, moved on to Washington and they didn’t take any of their history with them. In fact, Aaron Boone is wearing the number that was retired for me in Montreal. The Expos are no longer, and the Mets, when I made the choice in ’07 not to go and manage in Binghamton, I am not associated with anybody, that’s why I’m managing in Independent ball I guess.”