Jerry Manuel: OK, I want the pitchers in the outfield doing some long tossing.
Johan Santana: Hey, skip, I feel this shooting pain in my left shoulder every time I throw the ball. Maybe I should go check in with New York Mets trainer Ray Ramirez.
JM: What, you’re not a team player, Johan Santana? I’ll cut you!
JS: I think there’s something wrong with my shoulder and I don’t want to throw until it gets checked out!
(Johan Santana walks towards clubhouse)
JM: That’s poor, Johan Santana. That’s poor.

I never knew he had a record label!

The guy seems like he just likes to bully people who he perceives aren’t putting forth 100%, and sees injuries as an excuse.

is it ridiculous yes, but I imagine it has a lot to do with how both interact with the media. Also in football I think head coaches are seen as having WAY more control over the organization than in baseball. In football head coaches and gms often work together and head coaches often have first say on coaching and playing personnel while gms often handle more of the business side. Where as in baseball managers are almost like baby-sitters to the players and philosophy of the gm. Most people probably aren’t calling for Manuels head cause, while he’s an awful manager, they’ve already seen one manager fired under Minaya without any problems solved so they’re moving onto the bigger fish, and even with Minaya they’re starting to move onto the Wilpons since the same problems seem to be persisting through 3 gm changes.

WE know about some of the boneheaded moves in-game that cost us a few games, and all of the asinine things that he says/does, but it all comes down to performance, and that little pesky thought will always be there whispering, “What if half of the team didn’t get injured? We might have made it to the playoffs.”