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Much better analogy. This is exactly like MacLean. I still remember first game Lemaire coached behind the bench he was shaking his head and telling the press they were not conditioned. That they forgot how to play hockey. That's how deeply unqualified MacLean was

Sometimes you need to be patient when you see a good manager with a bad team trying every trick in the book to outsmart the other guy and steal a win or two. Good managers get teams to overachieve. This is not the time for patience. He has not shown to be imaginative, inspiring, savvy or an effective leader in any way. Heck we even had a damn batting out of order issue a little while ago. This is bush league

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14 minutes ago, Kinkyisth3b3st said:

Michael Kay literally said on the broadcast “in the very litigious society we currently live in, he (DeGrom) should sue the Mets offense for a lack of run support.”

He and LeBron should commiserate somewhere over having teammates who either suck, have no brains or both.

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4 minutes ago, Kinkyisth3b3st said:

Just saw the Mets have a wRC+ of twenty five in the month of June. 

To give you an idea of how low that number is; starting pitchers in the NL currently have a wRC+ of 23. 

Holy sh!t man. I look up and down that lineup and see an average offense and spectacular starting rotation. I have zero idea how it’s humanly possible for DeGrom to have an ERA below 1 in his last 9 starts and lose 7 of them. 

Because the Mets defy logic, reason, and mathematics. Do not apply those things to us as you would with conventional franchises. We're at the mercy of some malevolent force right now

What's going to happen now is things will reverse. All of a sudden the Mets will finally start hitting, but the pitching will stink, and we'll continue to lose

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There's no words.  I have nothing to add.  You guys have already summed everything up perfectly.

Fire Callaway.  Sandy's awesome approach to building a team will hinder ANY manager, but Callaway isn't up to the job, in any way.  He has to go.

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7 minutes ago, Daniel said:

To be fair, that seems to be the trend among all teams, including the Yankees.

True but it's gotta be a LITTLE different hiring a manager in NY, you gotta have someone with a little gravitas that can command respect and handle the media and outsized expectations.  Boone doesn't have to do much with the Yankees but at least he's a name that has credibility there because he played in NY and was on national broadcasts.  Callaway said it himself, this ain't Cleveland.

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The team has quit. From Cespedes on down to everybody. They are not trying. They have quit on their manager, the season, each other. It is an absolute meltdown

Are they going to do anything to shake things up? 

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The team has quit. From Cespedes on down to everybody. They are not trying. They have quit on their manager, the season, each other. It is an absolute meltdown

Are they going to do anything to shake things up? 

Has it been twenty years yet?  It'll take that long for Rip Van Sandy to wake up.

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2 minutes ago, NJDevs4978 said:

True but it's gotta be a LITTLE different hiring a manager in NY, you gotta have someone with a little gravitas that can command respect and handle the media and outsized expectations.  Boone doesn't have to do much with the Yankees but at least he's a name that has credibility there because he played in NY and was on national broadcasts.  Callaway said it himself, this ain't Cleveland.

And that's the death knell. The guy is overwhelmed and at this point is it even fair to him to be out there like a shivering fawn? As this goes on I'm probably going to start feeling bad for him. 

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On 6/9/2018 at 6:38 AM, Colorado Rockies 1976 said:

There's no words.  I have nothing to add.  You guys have already summed everything up perfectly.

Fire Callaway.  Sandy's awesome approach to building a team will hinder ANY manager, but Callaway isn't up to the job, in any way.  He has to go.

 

10 hours ago, NJDevs4978 said:

lol that figures

"Losing is a disease, as contagious as bubonic plague...."

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14 hours ago, '7' said:

The team has quit. From Cespedes on down to everybody. They are not trying. They have quit on their manager, the season, each other. It is an absolute meltdown

Are they going to do anything to shake things up? 

No.  Sandy couldn't give less of a damn, and why should he?  Apparently he has the job for life no matter how many awful decisions he makes.

22 hours ago, NJDevs4978 said:

They SHOULD...but Sandy clearly sees managers as inexpensive, faceless middle men.  Girardi doesn't fit that mold.

That, and since Sandy decided that Callaway was so awesome that he gave him a THREE year deal, money of course will play a huge role in the "We can't fire Mickey so soon!" company line we're sure to be fed shortly.

Searching hard for a new manager would also require way more energy and motivation than 10 Sandys combined could ever dream of having.  

Season will be effectively punted away.

Of course Cespedes can't play.  HE DOESN'T WANT TO.  End of story.  There will be plenty of "setbacks".

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4 minutes ago, Kinkyisth3b3st said:

“Seth Lugo” is a funny way to spell “Noah Syndergaard”. Is it players nickname weekend again? Wonder why his nickname is something so silly sounding.

regardless, he’s come out and dominated the Yankees exactly as expected. 

Wait until the bullpen shows up in a clowncar

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Just now, NJDevs4978 said:

And Gsellman shows mental toughness unworthy of a Met - getting five outs in the eighth inning.  I thought for sure Torres was going yard for the coup de grace after the double error.

It was so lax and mindless on Reyes part (75% of what Reyes does on the field is mindless anyway) he probably thinks the neighborhood play still exists/ And it wasn't like the runner was right at his feet. He had time, he had space. It was just textbook bad baseball

With how he's looked this year this HAS to be the last straw

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Mets release Adrian Gonzalez and Jose Lobaton. Gonzalez had only 3 hits in his last 28 ab's. Only 1 walk during that stretch too. Bet he asked to be released

Ty Kelly and Dom Smith on the way up

Had no idea Ty Kelly was still kicking around somewhere in the organization. Smith wasn't even hitting in Vegas

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Funny that now that Sandy actually woke up for a few minutes, that somehow Reyes is STILL here.  And of course a complete nothing like Ty Kelly is back in the fold.  That couldn't be more of a Sandy move.

Since 2018 clearly just became yet another "punt the season" (of course it did), might as well give Smith the balance of this year with the big club and just deal with the lumps.  Maybe Peter Alonso moves up too (from AA to AAA), but he's been cold lately...still getting on base via BB, but was hitting just .156 in his last  10 AA games.  

I watched maybe five minutes of this series.  The Mets are just such an eyesore right now, even with the team getting solid starting pitching as of late.  They can't hit, and Dom Smith and Ty Kelly aren't going to change that at all.  

I really don't know how you get a guy in Cespedes who doesn't have any interest in competing to actually want to get on the field.  I haven't seen anything like this since Carl Pavano with the Yankees. 

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