You're Hired

[Frayed Knot]

Nationals reportedly opt to retain Riggleman over hiring Valentine

[ashie62]

Bobby V have Swine flu or something?

Saw Bobby V on ESPN Tuesday sitting on the right. He just didn't look at home. Whoever colors his hair did a great job.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Bobby Vee, already getting paid good money to stay home, has a higher asking price, I'm sure.

[ashie62]

Bobby Vee, already getting paid good money to stay home, has a higher asking price, I'm sure.[/quote:fpaki4mr]

You betcha..ante up Fred!

Easy for me to say

[Centerfield]

Bobby V have Swine flu or something?

[metirish]

Bobby not getting hired is a good thing, he can take over if the Mets flounder out of the gate.

[Guest Edgy DC]

It's official. Wally gets the Cyclones.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Hopefully he'll make it through the week without getting fired.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Well, he'd already signed with the organization sometime back so any new skeletons have had their chance to emerge over the last several weeks.

�I am thrilled and grateful to be coming back to the Mets� organization,� said Backman. �The greatest days of my professional career were spent here in New York, and I have always felt a special connection to the city. I am especially excited to be joining the Cyclones. Brooklyn is a major minor-league team, and I know the borough�s fans are � like me � intensely passionate about baseball and about winning.�[/quote:2hqel5nh]

Blah' date=' blah, bliddy, blah scrappy. Blah, blah, blue, collar, blah, blah. Short, white blah, blah, committed to winning. Brooklyn, baby, bliddy, blah. Blah-blah.[/quote:2hqel5nh']

Short-season A is probably a really good job. You get three months (four counting spring training) down there in St. Lucie evaluating your talent as they work out in extended spring limbo, so you know them inside and out by the time the season starts, which certainly is different from a full-season minor league job. You get a handful of guys coming to you from the draft, but you've read the scouting reports, and they're generally high draftees, and they're pretty much the birthday presents waiting for you when you get to Crooklyn.

[metirish]

Good for Wally , good for the Mets and good for The Cyclones.

[Frayed Knot]

Also factoring in the Wilpon's (alleged) penchant for intentionally stacking the (self-owned) Brooklyn squad with their best young talent (to the detriment of other minor league affiliates) should supply Wally with a (hoped-for) soft landing.

[MFS62]

Hopefully he'll make it through the week without getting fired.[/quote:1m8c9fcc]
Or a 9-1-1 call.

Later

[ashie62]

Wally Backman..2 arrests and financials problems..Sounds like half of America..Welcome to Wally's World

[Guest Edgy DC]

By the way, with all the hackocracy focusing on the "Backman as Next-in-Line" angle of this story, how perfect that he first found hot water years ago as a AA manager in the White Sox when he allegedly asked Gardenhire to go hard after the South Siders to help grease the skids for then-Sox-manager Jerry Manuel.

[metirish]

The media loved that one.....Manuel for his part said he is happy that Wally got another chance.