Mickey's Days Numbered?

Every team in Baseball has problems. Injuries happen. Bad or inconsistent play happens. Slumps happen for players and teams. Everybody goes through it, it's just part of the game. When a team looks like it has no life, it does fall on the players, but it also falls on the manager. Mickey Callaway has tried to make things work with the roster that was given to him by ownership and new general manager Bride Van Wagenen. The way things have gone the last few days, it looks like Mickey's days are running low here in New York.

New York just got swept in a three game series by the Miami Marlins, the worst team in baseball. Not only did they get swept but the team has had a total of three hits over the last two games. If it was against a team with a really good pitching staff, then OK, it happens. But the team that just beat them over the last three days doesn't have a good pitching staff. Its the Marlins the worst team in baseball. The Mets just made them look like a respectable baseball club.

This was a portion of the schedule they just hit where they could have made a lot of noise. They dropped the final two games to the Nats at the end of the week, and just got swept by the Marlins, two teams who aren't going that great this year. Now the Mets return home for a four game set with the Nats and three with the Tigers, before the schedule starts ramping up against good teams. New York had a chance to set themselves up to be in good shape going into a tough trip at the start of next month that included playing the Dodgers, Rockies, Cards, Giants and Yankees, all early in June. But they fell flat against a horrible team.

To make this even worse, the Manager Mickey Callaway had said in an interview early in the day that he can't be worried about job security. Following the loss yesterday, a 2-0 win by the Marlins in which the Mets had only one hit, Callaway had this to say:

"I'm coming in tomorrow to manage the New York Mets and I'm going to be enthusiastic about it and I'm going to continue to lead this team to something special," Callaway said. "As a leader, you can't ever worry about yourself. I'm here. One of the things I told them when I got hired was selfless service is very important to me, and my goal every day is to improve that room, be consistent, and make sure our players continue to improve."

Well Mickey, the sentiment and the attitude are awesome, but the results sure as hell aren't there. You want the players to improve? well getting a grand total of three hits off the worst team in baseball sure as hell isn't improving. The team has been in a downhill slide for the better part of the month and you ain't doing a damn thing to try and stop it Mickey. I know you can't go out there and have Robinson Cano make contact with the ball, but maybe you can light a fire under his butt so he can run out a ground ball and not lack the hustle on inning ending double plays in back to back innings. It's just stuff like that, that drives me nuts as a fan. Not getting the best out of the players, that duty falls on the manager.

I'd love to have this guy be a success and have him be the one to lead the Mets to the promise land and get us a World Championship. But it doesn't look its going to happen for Mickey here in New York!