AG/DC wrote: Carter's being disingenuous at many levels. They certainly didn't owe him the first base coaching job after he told them to stick the managing job at Bingo. The Bingo job was an honorable offer, and he declined it --- he's not saying this now but he did then --- because he wasn't up for the long bus rides. That's a perfectly valid answer, but they don't owe him his pick of jobs, and they certainly don't owe him anything like a timetable for when he'd get to manage the Mets. That's a professional insult to Willie Randolph. I heard Joe & Evan interview him Thursday on WFAN. He was supposed to be plugging his book, but instead he spent most of this time whining about this same issue. He said he would not take the Bingo job without some indication from the Mets would be grooming him to fill the manager position. Joe & Evan tried to point out to him that the orginazation would never do that because like Edgy said, it would be an insult to Willie. Gary didn't see it that way and stood firm on his argument.