To bring winning back to Queens, Mets should hire… Lee Mazzilli? (News)

Good morning Mets fans.  Apparently I am now writing in the Daily News using the psuedonym “Bill Madden.”  I swear there are days I don’t even know who I am.

So, if not Backman, there is only one other candidate who fills at least two of the three primary criteria the Wilpons are looking for – difference-maker, experience, Met pedigree – and that’s Lee Mazzilli, who, coincidentally, is also employed by the Yankees in a behind-the-scenes capacity. Mazzilli, one of the most popular Mets ever, managed the Baltimore Orioles for a year and a half in 2004-05 and might have been a difference-maker there if not constrained by the manic, deterrent ownership of Peter Angelos. Mazzilli’s 78-84 third-place finish In 2004, is the O’s best record since 1999. The following year, he had them a half-game out of first place as late as July 18 – only to be fired by Angelos two weeks later in the wake of Rafael Palmeiro’s positive steroids test.

via To bring winning back to Queens, Mets should hire Kevin Towers and Lee Mazzilli to clean up the mess.

Yep, you have now lived long enough to see a non-kook suggest Lee Mazzilli be the next manager of the Mets.  Man, even I have given up that dream.