1991 (?) at Veterans Stadium Im with my friend Mike along the third base line before the game.
Mike: Andy! Andy Benes!
Andy: Looks at us
Mike: You're on my fantasy team! You're my ace!
Andy: You're in trouble.
Missed last night's game but saw a clip of Lindor perhaps showing up Green during the Manaea pitching change. Immediately I wondered whether the bench on Sunday was due to injury recovery or something else.
Its not all sunshine on a cloudy day for Lindor. He punched out McNeil and had a rep as a diva when he came over from Cleveland. When the Mets were his team there was nothing better but I wonder how much dysfunction he himself is a part of.
Hardly ever got ejected.
Wearing no. 64 didn't do him any favors. Green wearing no. 70!
Wouldn't be surprised to see him get a second chance somewhere.m, like the Nats or White Sox maybe.
Despite what you might read above he was a fine Xs and Os manager. He just didn't know how to right the ship when it wobbled.
Think about what a clusterfuck it would be to fire a guy whose number is retired. Every manager gets fired! That should be a prerequisite to getting your number retired--no more fucking with the organization. Even Seaver had trouble as a channel 11 guy.
What I'm saying is, Beltran can manage the Mets pr get his number retired. Not both till he's truly retired.
I agree its long since time to have tried someone else but keep in mind Young and Wagaman are already here and Morabito looked worse than MJ on his worst day.
I will also say that I liked Melendez as a guy. Like, he was genuine and professional like Semien, whatever the results.
Felt like Mendy did a lot of things right but he lacked that motivation gene. Over and over demonstrated he couldn't pull the club out of a slide. This year I felt like the team just wasn't prepared to compete on day 1 and that's on him to an extent. To be totally fair to Mendy I'd have fired him after the Phillies series not the Cubs.
Son of a horse trainer.
Succeeded Pat Mahomes as the Best Mets pitcher to wear 23.
Showed up not long after Tim Peterson, who was a schlubby guy unlike the long and lean David. I conflated em anyway
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