Quick little editorial note: While Shannon and I agree on most things Mets related, and I’m not someone to go off on rants about a tough loss, just don’t go burning down Shannon’s door if you disagree with me (again, I should never drive you to do that, but if I do, you can happily come knocking on my -Niko’s- door)
After a painful week in Philadelphia (even by Mets standards) culminated by perhaps the most frustrating loss in a long time, Mickey Callaway looks defeated and out of answers.
Mickey Callaway on Edwin Diaz: "I didn't notice that his stuff was off right away" pic.twitter.com/fWtEfcFeVC
— SNY (@SNYtv) June 27, 2019
Thankfully, we’re coming up on 1969 weekend, so they can’t actually afford to fire him without creating a huge cloud of uncertainty over the franchise, so Callaway is definitely safe through the weekend, and probably until the All-Star Break. At a larger scale, though, it’s starting to reach the point where you feel like it can’t conceivably last much longer, whether you like him or not.
I find this whole saga quite interesting. Personally, I look at Wags as the bad guy, he’s the one that puts the cards on the table (and occasionally decides where to play them) but as Shannon pointed out earlier in the week, he isn’t firing himself, and it looks like he’s already canned most of Mickey’s coaching staff, so Callaway seems to be a reasonable next step.
Since we are seeing so many former Mets come back this weekend, it will be interesting to see how Mickey is remembered in the future. He could very well fall alongside Met managers like Joe Bamberger and Jeff Torberg, who most people have mostly (if not completely) forgotten about.
