Wally Backman Petition

[Guest msilva177]

Check out this petition that someone created asking for Wally to be hired into the Mets organization

http://www.petitiononline.com/backman/petition.html

[Guest AG/DC]

Ye, gads, get that thing away from me.

[Mex17]

I was big on Backman too and I still think that he should be considered. That said, I think that John Stearns might actually provide a lot of the positives that many people are seeing in Backman (fiery, hard-nosed, do whatever it takes to win, etc.) without any of the extra baggage that Backman would bring.

[Guest AG/DC]

You know, what I remember from organizational psychology, you see some raging maniacs like Wally who can initially get things done, but they absolutely stall out mid-career, and alienate so many people that nobody shows up for their retirement parties.

It just confuses me that what people know about him as a manager, they know from a documentary of him managing a first-year team in a first-year independent league, living out of a trailer, and he couldn't even behave enough to hold down that job for the entire season.

[Fman99]

Mex17 wrote: I was big on Backman too and I still think that he should be considered. That said, I think that John Stearns might actually provide a lot of the positives that many people are seeing in Backman (fiery, hard-nosed, do whatever it takes to win, etc.) without any of the extra baggage that Backman would bring.

Plus Stearns has the all-important Mets pedigree. I like that he played great ball for those awful teams of my childhood (I was born in '73).

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'd be delighted with Stearns and very wary of Backman.

I can understand wanting fiery, but I think it has to be combined with someone who also possesses a degree of sanity.

[Elster88]

I'm guessing msilva started that petition and is making money off of the number of hits.

[Gwreck]

Actually, the truth is probably far from that (unless of course he owns "petitiononline.com.")

That being said, it still doesn't make online petitions any less moronic.

[stevejrogers]

AG/DC wrote: You know, what I remember from organizational psychology, you see some raging maniacs like Wally who can initially get things done, but they absolutely stall out mid-career, and alienate so many people that nobody shows up for their retirement parties. It just confuses me that what people know about him as a manager, they know from a documentary of him managing a first-year team in a first-year independent league, living out of a trailer, and he couldn't even behave enough to hold down that job for the entire season.

See Martin, Billy for a perfect example.

[Guest msilva177]

Elster88 wrote: I'm guessing msilva started that petition and is making money off of the number of hits.

I had the petition sent to me and thought it was interesting - I don't make any money off of it.

I do the show as a hobby and make barely enough to cover expenses- I just enjoy talking with former Mets and Yankees. Its almost like my own blog in audio format.