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Three rumored front-runners

Terry Collins 5 votes

Clint Hurdle 9 votes

Bob Melvin 8 votes

Benjamin Grimm
Nov 12 2010 02:41 PM

We don't know if these guys really are the front-runners, but if they are (as Adam Rubin is reporting), which one would you prefer?

metirish
Nov 12 2010 02:46 PM
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Collins

Ceetar
Nov 12 2010 02:48 PM
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David Wright.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr
Nov 12 2010 02:49 PM
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Melvin, but I'm tepid on all of them, really. Hurdle seems okay, but I'm pretty sure I'd have to reuse a few of my Jerry-era "happy place" mantras, owing to all the bunting (his teams led or were close to leading the NL in sacs for his entire tenure as Rockies jefe).

[SIDE NOTE: The more I read about DeMarlo Hale, the more I like about DeMarlo Hale. Tons of experience managing in the upper-level minors/coaching at the major-league level, seems open-minded about advanced stats, has been quoted in a few places as emphasizing stolen-base percentage over plain ol' green-lights.]

TransMonk
Nov 12 2010 02:59 PM
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Hurdle.

Though they all seem like used up ass-bags to me.

Zvon
Nov 12 2010 04:49 PM
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Melvin.
He just seems to me to be more of a Sandy man.

Ceetar
Nov 12 2010 05:08 PM
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Zvon wrote:
Melvin.
He just seems to me to be more of a Sandy man.

The Sandy Man Can!

G-Fafif
Nov 12 2010 05:09 PM
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TransMonk wrote:
Hurdle.

Though they all seem like used up ass-bags to me.

Monk expresses my thoughts as if setting them to music.

soupcan
Nov 12 2010 07:41 PM
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Collins only because I've read a bit more about him but honestly I'm with everybody else - 6 of one, half dozen of the other at this point.

MFS62
Nov 12 2010 08:51 PM
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Ceetar wrote:
Melvin.
He just seems to me to be more of a Sandy man.

The Sandy Man Can!

Ceetar, you asked for it:

Who can change a roster, along with his new crew
Get some good new players, maybe get rid of one or two
The Sandy Man, oh the Sandy Man can
The Sandy Man can 'cause he’ll make the needed deals to make the team play good

Who can take a roster, make some dealings sly
Make the Mets so good it makes Yankee rooters cry
The Sandy Man, the Sandy Man can
The Sandy Man can 'cause he’ll make the needed deals to make the team play good

The Sandy Man makes every step he takes planned out and judicious
Now you talk about your Mets-based wishes, high OPS and fewer swishes

Oh, who can start tomorrow, fulfill our every dream
Put behind the sorrows and improve our fav’rite team
The Sandy Man, oh the Sandy Man can
The Sandy Man can 'cause he’ll make the needed deals to make the team play good

The Sandy Man makes every step he takes planned out and judicious
Now you talk about your Mets-based wishes, high OPS and fewer swishes

Yeah, yeah, yeah
Who can start tomorrow, his new front office team
Put behind the sorrows and improve our fav’rite team
The Sandy Man, oh the Sandy Man can
The Sandy Man can 'cause he’ll make the needed deals to make the team play good
The Sandy Man can 'cause he’ll make the needed deals to make the team play good

Later

dgwphotography
Nov 13 2010 11:34 AM
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MFS62 wrote:
Melvin.
He just seems to me to be more of a Sandy man.

The Sandy Man Can!

Ceetar, you asked for it:

Who can change a roster, along with his new crew
Get some good new players, maybe get rid of one or two
The Sandy Man, oh the Sandy Man can
The Sandy Man can 'cause he’ll make the needed deals to make the team play good

Who can take a roster, make some dealings sly
Make the Mets so good it makes Yankee rooters cry
The Sandy Man, the Sandy Man can
The Sandy Man can 'cause he’ll make the needed deals to make the team play good

The Sandy Man makes every step he takes planned out and judicious
Now you talk about your Mets-based wishes, high OPS and fewer swishes

Oh, who can start tomorrow, fulfill our every dream
Put behind the sorrows and improve our fav’rite team
The Sandy Man, oh the Sandy Man can
The Sandy Man can 'cause he’ll make the needed deals to make the team play good

The Sandy Man makes every step he takes planned out and judicious
Now you talk about your Mets-based wishes, high OPS and fewer swishes

Yeah, yeah, yeah
Who can start tomorrow, his new front office team
Put behind the sorrows and improve our fav’rite team
The Sandy Man, oh the Sandy Man can
The Sandy Man can 'cause he’ll make the needed deals to make the team play good
The Sandy Man can 'cause he’ll make the needed deals to make the team play good

Later

This is just brilliant. There are no other words...

metirish
Nov 13 2010 11:50 AM
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Excellent

MFS62
Nov 14 2010 03:13 PM
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Thanks,
Later

Ashie62
Nov 14 2010 06:26 PM
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Wes Westrum.

MFS62
Nov 16 2010 07:42 AM
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Now that they're supposedly down to the "final two", why were they going to interview Jose Oqendo? Is it because neither of those two really excited them that much?

Later

Edgy DC
Nov 16 2010 07:45 AM
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Because maybe they weren't down to the final two. If another opportunity opened up, it seems perfectly reasonable to explore it.

Benjamin Grimm
Nov 16 2010 08:30 AM
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Yeah, the "two finalists" thing is speculation from Mets beat writers and bloggers. The Mets never made any such statement.

It all seems to be based on Sandy's statement that he values prior big league experience. In his interview with Kevin Burkhardt, in which he made that statement, he made it clear that that wasn't an absolute requirement. But it's being interpreted as if it was.

HahnSolo
Nov 16 2010 08:31 AM
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Edgy DC wrote:
Because maybe they weren't down to the final two.

This. With a new regime in place, I'm really not sure how much the sources for all the local scribes really know.

MFS62
Nov 16 2010 08:45 AM
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Here's a reporter who doesn't know anything except Mets-bashing, our old friend Madden:
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseb ... take_.html

If you hire an "experienced" manager, it means he has managed someplace else and probably has been fired by that team.
But you just know that if the Mets hired someone who had never managed in the bigs before, (i.e.- never fired) you know he'd be jumping all over them for trusting a big market team to someone with no experience.

Later

Benjamin Grimm
Nov 16 2010 08:57 AM
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On Mets Hot Stove, Kevin Burkhardt pointed out that Dallas Green, Art Howe, and Jeff Torborg all joined the Mets as experienced big league managers, and Davey Johnson didn't.

John Cougar Lunchbucket
Nov 16 2010 08:58 AM
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Madden was advocating Mazzilli initially. He certainly lost the team in a small market.

Edgy DC
Nov 16 2010 09:33 AM
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Benjamin Grimm wrote:
On Mets Hot Stove, Kevin Burkhardt pointed out that Dallas Green, Art Howe, and Jeff Torborg all joined the Mets as experienced big league managers, and Davey Johnson didn't.

Davey Johnson gets a lot of work as a sample size of one. Randolph and Harrelson and Torre and Frazier and Westrum were also blessedly free of the burden of experience.