This is why I hate the Mainstream Media. ONE YEAR AGO when I was saying Mickey was overrated and was already calligraphies him Mickey Hodges, we were hearing about the new culture and the Hodges moment (and don’t forget the Pitching Guru that was gonna fix Harvey) blah blah. Now we get this…
If this sounds off to you and me — the nice guy trying gangsta — it will to the players as well. It is not good for a tenuous manager to be publicly challenged by his most respected player, the normally vanilla Jacob deGrom, who was critical of Callaway for removing him Saturday when the ace insisted he had a cramp that was not a problem. It played like Lyndon Johnson losing Walter Cronkite (ask your parents).
Ultimately, a manager should never want his players sensing: 1) inauthenticity, 2) blame deflection, 3) lack of answers. Callaway touched the managerial third rail. (via NY Post)
Anyway the Mickey Watch Watch watches to see what others are saying about a possible Mickey Watch, and looks like The Newspaper is still on the case.
One thing it gets right is I bet if Mickey is your pithing coach he is awesome. He seems like a genuinely cool and charismatic guy…..but not everyone is Gil Hodges. Howie should have known that. The Young Howie Rose from Mets Extra would never had tasted that Kool-Aid.
