Jerry Manuel's Plan 9 From Outer Space

Lost in the shuffle was Manuel pulling a move so astonishingly stupid that it even bemused Steve Phillips, who, for the portions of the game I caught, seemed much less reprehensible than usual. Perhaps someone at ESPN told him to cool it?

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I didn't see the whole game

But I heard them pointing out several times that no team, no matter the depth, could have survived with the lost players we’ve had this season. It really seemed to me like they lobby for Omar to keep his job.

by SuperT on Sep 14, 2009 12:14 PM EDT reply actions

Plan 9

I watched it last week on Netflix, not as unintentionally hilarious as expected. It made me interested to watch “Ed Wood” though, which was great.

Glad to see some Jerry Manuel criticism from people other than Met fans. It seems like most in the media have given him a free pass this year.

by James Kannengieser on Sep 14, 2009 2:25 PM EDT reply actions

Ed Wood was great

Depp and Burton always seem to be pretty good together.

"We must win and we must know how to win rather than win because we have statistical people."

by Evan_S on Sep 14, 2009 5:38 PM EDT up reply actions

Jerry Manuel is stupid, stupid, STUPID!

Nothing can get by him; especially in a small room: Mike Francessa

by GenJackRipper on Sep 14, 2009 5:47 PM EDT up reply actions

Steve Phillips is honestly the best guy ESPN has

I’ve heard him reference at least a few sabermetric concepts (the most profound being using DER to value defense instead of errors like everyone else does).

by vivaelpujols on Sep 15, 2009 5:09 AM EDT reply actions

i kinda hope that's a joke, no offense.

shall we redirect you to some of his “best” material?

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw

by squid92 on Sep 15, 2009 8:10 AM EDT up reply actions

I know, I know about the "Beltran incedent"

But everything I’ve heard besides that have been suprisingly good.

by vivaelpujols on Sep 15, 2009 10:42 AM EDT up reply actions

We'll just agree to disagree.

But I’m sure everyone else here would back me up that Phillips is unbelievably terrible.

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw

by squid92 on Sep 15, 2009 11:05 AM EDT up reply actions

is it possible

that Phillips is decent when covering other teams, but that he can’t maintain his sanity when he’s covering the Mets?

by JoshNY on Sep 15, 2009 11:30 AM EDT up reply actions

That's

the impression I get. He struggles to say anything even slightly positive about the Mets in case it invalidates his own glorious tenure. Ha!

by deadspy3 on Sep 15, 2009 11:59 AM EDT up reply actions

Perhaps.

I still hate him.

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw

by squid92 on Sep 15, 2009 4:03 PM EDT up reply actions

Well, there is very good reason to hate him

He blew his chances with the Mets by stocking the team with mediocre outfielders and then signed disastrous free agent contracts by the truckload, now he purposely seems to slant his coverage of the Mets to serve his spiteful agenda.

Nothing can get by him; especially in a small room: Mike Francessa

by GenJackRipper on Sep 15, 2009 4:41 PM EDT up reply actions