Over a year ago a petition was started requesting the return Wally Backman to the Mets organization. The petition is still alive, and now is a good time to sign it if you haven’t already and believe he should be given another chance. Contrary to popular belief, this petition was not to make Wally the … Read more
Wouldn’t it be great if the Mets did in fact find it in their heart to bring Wally Backman back into the organization? Funny that a little over a year ago, this was written on MetsBlog, in reference to a review of Playing for Peanuts: The show is about Wally Backman’s return to managing in … Read more
At Newsday today, David Lennon reported that more heads will be rolling in the Mets organization, and noted that “Mets decision-makers have been meeting regularly for the past six weeks in an effort to sort out what went wrong this season.” To which Matt Cerrone of MetsBlog responded, “here, let me take a crack at … Read more
During the NFL offseason, the Jets made the somewhat surprising move of hiring Rex Ryan as their head coach. The hiring was met with mixed opinions from the pundits, and there were much eye rolling going on when Ryan addressed the media on several occasions with big talk about the Jets — and that he … Read more
Somehow this news got buried at the bottom of Adam Rubin’s postgame report on Sunday night, as if it were inconsequential: Binghamton B-Mets manager Mako Oliveras and Gulf Coast League manager Julio Franco have been fired. Oliveras and Franco join Minor League Special Assistant Ramon Pena and “Field Coordinator” Luis Aguayo on the unemployment line … Read more
