Undeniable facts about Jeff Torborg

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Fact: Torborg comments on a radio show, from Neil Best of Newsday--

]Jeff Torborg weighs in on the Willie Randolph firing! Jeff Torborg, a ghost of Mets managerial flops past, was on XM Satellite Radio Wednesday recalling his own awkward end: �To this day, I don�t know if the Mets know quite how to fire their managers�I was fired at home, but I had not spoken to the general manager for four days prior to my firing�He originally would come down every night. "When I was fired, I came to a host of cameras. It was suggested I come in through the bullpen. I said, �I�m not going to go in through the back door here...� I woke up that morning listening to the news that I had been fired�I was not flown across country. I was attacked [by the media] outside Shea Stadium. "It�s unbelievable to me�Willie has an impeccable reputation. Captain of the New York Yankees, that�s really something special, then a trusted coach for a number of years, now he takes the Mets and does, what I thought a terrific job�� Torborg on his reaction to the owners telling him not to take his firing personally: "It�s almost like you�re being patted on the head. Don�t make a comment that this is not personal�It�s certainly personal to the one who is losing his job and whose family is disrupted.�

[Frayed Knot]

Remember that the news of Torborg's firing broke during the day (as he mentions above) but wasn't delivered until after the game was over (those leaks again) -- a game in which the Mets scored several times in the 9th to tie it and again in the 10th (Bonilla 2R HR) to win the type of game they hadn't been able to win all year.

Didn't help Torborg though.

[G-Fafif]

Mets Walkoffs recently remembered the final Torborgasm.

]As the newspapers described the next day, the crowd went bananas. It was the kind of win that could turn a team's fortunes around. Except that these were the 1993 Mets.

I was actually a bit disappointed they won, 'cause I didn't think Torborg deserved to go out with a winning percentage better than .333.

[Guest AG/DC]

That's a weird thought.

[G-Fafif]

It was a weird year.