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Typically, by now, 25 minutes after the game’s final pitch, Jerry Manuel will have addressed the media, but he has yet to do so tonight, according to SNY.
This would suggest he is still in the clubhouse, hopefully screaming at his team, who should be ashamed of their performance tonight, regardless of how many people are on the disabled list.
Update, 11:17 pm:
Manuel emerged to speak with reporters and described his 25–minute, closed-door meeting with the team as simply a ‘family talk.’
He said it was ‘nothing serious,’ he was just ‘keeping things in order.’
The key to the meeting, he said, ‘was to say we have enough talent in here to get it done, so let’s get it done… We gotta do what we gotta do, we are who we are.’
Or canned like a Tuna!…lol Hey a guy can dream can’t he!
Yeah. Maybe they can hire the great Lou Pinella. He’ll light a fire under them. Oh wait. Lou’s Cubs are also 2 games under .500 and they’re relatively healthy. I guess he’s not doing such a great job either.
Ya know, I wouldn’t mind so much if this team was playing sound baseball and just getting overmatched due to injuries with Jerry at the helm. BUt it the way they lose with no apparent recourse from Jerry thats disturbing!
what “recourse” is there possibly?
The Mets played a 1B tonight not ready for primetime.
They played FERNANDO TATIS at 2B!
Alex Cora started his eleventy billionth game at SS, ten billion nine hundred ninety nine million, nine hundred ninety nine thousand, nine hundred ninety five more than the Mets would have hoped by now.
The Teenage unready Machine was in CF, flanked by the teams best offensive player Gary Sheffiled (yikes) and the concussion.
“Captain K” at third and a man named Omir at the dish.
This team could arguably have withstood the loss of one of Wright, Delgado, Beltran and Reyes. Not three of them.
Too little, too late Jerry. Nice try man but you should have done this long ago.
The time for “family talk isover!” It’s time for some rear ends to get re-engineered!
A family talk….chaired by the family’s crazy uncle. I have no respect anymore for him. Bad enoough we have all these injuries and all this horrendous luck. He is the icing on the cake. He told Francesa he’ll be sitting both Wright and Sheffield and good ‘ol slugging Tatis will be in the lineup once again. What a joyous time to be a Met fan.
Sadly my friend it doesn’t look like it’s going to get any better anytime soon! I’ve been a Met fan for a long time and have seen the up and downs as many of us have. BUt this year has been about the roughest thus far as a fan atleast for me! BUt I’ll root for them always as I have since I was 8.
I agree with you Chiefman. I lost all respect for Jerry. It seems to me that he is losing his team when he pointed out over past few days especially for help; thus, not trusting what he has..thus the team’s total confindence being down, and wondering if they are enough and help is really needed.
It seems that Jerry makes strange moves at times. Since I was Mets fan since I was 7. I will root for the team good or bad. I hope this team believes this talk and turn it around.
I made this point on a previous post, but it fits here, too. What do you want Jerry to do? If he says the team needs help, which it clearly does, then he’s not trusting what he has. If he says nothing, people get on his case for that. The guy can’t win no matter what he does. The crazy moves, in my opinion, are him trying to get lucky and steal a win. I don’t think of him as a great manager, but I really don’t think anyone else would do any better.
It’s not Jerry’s fault that Johan was getting squeezed, or that the players go out and kick the ball all around the field. All the practice, drills, yelling, and screaming are worthless if the players don’t go out and execute. With the exception of LaRussa, Pinella, and maybe Bobby V, a manager doesn’t make a difference in wins and losses. The GM builds the team, and this is on Omar, not Jerry.
Pinella? Do you even watch baseball?
Yes, I do, and I think his antics might help motivate these players.
thought he got fired for a sec
wouldn’t that be a pleasant suprise!
I thought he quit for a sec.
Is it wrong to wish Jerry were canned? lol
Is this man still going to give David Wright a day off tomorrow? He goes 3 for 4 with a HR, but our genius manager is going to give him the day off. Incredible. I have an idea, why don’t we please give Manuel the rest of the year off, let them play without a manager, that’s what they’ve been doing the whole season anyway. Actually now that I think of it I think the most complete game this team played was the game Manuel was suspended.
What a fraud Manuel is.
For weeks, all we’ve heard is him complain about injuries, talk about “treading water” and staying near .500, about needing better players and now he says what they have is enough?
How can he expect anyone to believe him when he’s been whining about his roster since Reyes went down?
And Johan is starting to annoy me.
He’s been TERRIBLE this month. Even if you take out the fly ball Martinez missed, he gave up 8 hits and 4 walks in 6 innings in a game the team desperately needed.
We all know he’s a stud, but it’s time for him to start acting like it.
I said this on another board (Joe Janish’s Mets Today) where a poster thinks that the Wilpons have given up on this season. As much of an optimist about the Mets that I’ve been, I think that said poster might be onto something here. Madoff took a whole bunch of money, as evidenced by the KRod and Putz deals before the scandal broke, and the signings after (Tim Redding). They won’t trade any of their good prospects in the low minors, because they probably in rebuilding mode.
The problem with all of that is that the NL East absolutely refuses to select a team to get out to a comfortable lead. (Or, more accurately, no team seems like they really want to run away with the lead.) So, a team could reel off a six- or seven-game winning streak and get right into the thick of things, or could go out to a good lead. As long as this team stays tepid in the NL East, we’re going to keep getting more of the same from this team.
So, what we’re going to see is a CF who is learning the game for the next few weeks; a 1B who is also learning the game(but has a lot of heart); a RF who, at the slightest sniffle, doesn’t want to play; and others who really should be in Buffalo. People like me will still continue to pull for them, because we’re bitter-enders.
Remember 1973 . . .
this makes no sense