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I always find things like this interesting…from Raissman today:

Reinsdorf should let Guillen, a longtime Miami resident, go to the Marlins, who are looking for a high-energy, high-profile Latin manager to guide their fortunes into their new downtown Miami stadium in 2012.

via With feud seemingly settled in the Bronx, time for ex-Yankees skipper Joe Torre to call it quits.

I don’t care who the Marlins hire.    However, the sentence caught my eye.

I’m wondering if the Mets or any other team are allowed to look for a high-energy, high-profile white manager to guide their fortunes, or if that’s racist?

How about teams find the best manager?

To make this about the Mets, I believe every name that has come up for the managerial job has been a white guy.   Will the Mets just hire Wally on October 10th or will they go through the dog and pony show of bringing in diverse candidates (the unofficial MLB Rooney Rule)?   Clearly the Mets organization is not racist..why should they have to go through this process if Wally is the guy they want?  But I bet they will.

Good morning Mets fans,

Usually on Saturday I will work ahead on the site, tweak a few design things and check my statistics.  This week the stats were eye-opening.

My traffic was down by half.

I know my blog didn’t get any less lame or boring than it usually is…and I know it wasn’t that I fubar’d the design…..nope, people just stopped reading.

Traffic was pretty good during Walter-Reed-gate and The Adventures of K-Rod which both gave this team attention….but now there’s been two weeks of nothing and it is showing.

I’m looking over the last 7 days,  and it’s a typical week – yearbook covers, oddball jersey sightings, news and notes.

Sure Mets Police works best when we’re policing things or noticing misstatements on fanbricks or chopbusting on obstructed views…but I don’t force stories when they aren’t there.   There’s just nothing happening.

I’d be curious if any other bloggers are noticing this.

As for the fat blogger – I do this regardless of who reads it.   As for the Mets, if people are starting to just not care, that’s far worse than the anger y’all have experienced since 2007.   Ask the Nets and Islanders what happens when everyone gets on with their lives.

With that being said, no podcast tonight because I too am not interested in talking about the Mets.

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Here’s the “best” from last week

The Times on Los Mets

Joel Sherman killed Jeff Wilpon

Whatever happened to that sunuvab***h George Steinbrenner?

Afterlife Shea Stadium returns

Homer the Beagle the pre-Mr. Met mascot

Randy’s great Elimination Celebration t-shirts

Saturday, September 25 @ Philadelphia

Jose Reyes – SS
Chris Carter – LF
Carlos Beltran – CF
David Wright – 3B
Ike Davis – 1B
Angel Pagan – RF
Josh Thole – C
Ruben Tejada – 2B
Dillon Gee – RHP