It's Sucking That Gets You Axed

[G-Fafif]

Last-place Diamondbacks clean house. Fraudulent 1988 NL MVP Kirk Gibson is interim manager. Disastrous mid-'90s Mets reliever Jerry DiPoto is interim GM.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Wow, I hope Brent Mayne has suffieciently warmed him up.

[HahnSolo]

That's 2 managers they've canned since dumping Wally Backman.

[Ceetar]

HahnSolo wrote: That's 2 managers they've canned since dumping Wally Backman.

I become increasingly thankful they dumped him every day.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Well, they dumped Wally Backman almost six years ago, so having two firings in that span isn't so unusual. In a similar six-year span, the Mets fired Davey Johnson, Bud Harrelson, Jeff Torborg, and Dallas Green.