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Excerpted from Klapsich:

"At some point this season, GMs are going find the game's best non-working manager just by turning on the TV. Bobby Valentine is headed back to ESPN's "Baseball Tonight" studio, where his brains, charisma and, yes, his availability, will be on nightly display.

The most obvious next step, though, is Flushing, where Jerry Manuel is in the final year of his contract. With the anvil hanging over his head, Manuel has two months, at best, to prove he can reverse the Mets' downward spiral which began all the way back in Game 7 of the 2006 NL Championship Series.

So it wouldn't take a full-blown dark age to oust Manuel; one long losing streak in late May would be enough. Question is, would ownership have the guts to re-hire Valentine?"

I know Minaya has taken a ton of heat with it being the offseason, but Manuel has his head just as firmly up his ass. I think this is a move that the collective fanbase would be behind, 100%. GET ON IT JEFF/FRED!

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Like the week that they fired Willie...

..I believed that he wasn’t necessarily a bad manager, but I believed strongly he should be fired just for a change of pace in the clubhouse. I honestly don’t think Jerry is that bad, but just as I did then I believe there needs to be a fresh start among the same group of “core” players. Basically a scapegoat. At the same time I’m basically obsessed with Bobby V and just got a signed photo (just learned one a kid in one of my classes is his nephew) hanging above my desk. So yeah that’d be like a dream come true for me.

by SheoawnnGreen23 on Feb 8, 2010 1:09 PM EST reply actions

Jerry "sir bunts-a-lot" Manuel

has been an awful manager. His decisions rarely make sense, and are often counterproductive. Even granting him some clemency because he had such a crazy amount of personnel changes last year, he still handled the players he had terribly, seemingly forgetting some existed, while using some players to pinch hit in the most questionable matchups. Jerry seems like a decent guy, and if you gave him a team which was stable and consistent he could probably manage it adequately, but a team in the condition the Mets are in now needs somebody who can corral the chaos, not add to it. I’d love to see Bobby V take over as well, he seemed to have a low tolerance for mistakes, but I doubt the Wilpons are going to bring him back.

by KeithsMoustache on Feb 8, 2010 1:23 PM EST up reply actions

Could someone whip up an online fan petition for Bobby V already?

Let’s go BringBackBobby, start lobbying!

by Olde Isle Mets Fan on Feb 8, 2010 1:48 PM EST reply actions

We'd have to compete with the Chiba Lotte Marines fans.

Realistically, I don’t think we can win.

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Feb 8, 2010 3:36 PM EST up reply actions

They already lost

Bobby’s back in America.

by Olde Isle Mets Fan on Feb 8, 2010 4:31 PM EST up reply actions

He got run out of town by the owner's idiot son

Good thing that sort of foolishness by the management doesn’t happen here, eh?

by BobbyV_Incognito on Feb 8, 2010 4:36 PM EST up reply actions

No, no, I mean, creating an online petition signed by the fans in support of bringing him back.

They already have a sizable lead over our theoretical petition, and if there is one ethnic group you don’t want to challenge concerning weird things like that, it’s the Japanese.

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Feb 8, 2010 5:22 PM EST up reply actions

Don't get me wrong, but....

while I would love to see BV back where he belongs, let’s face it, he won’t go too far with this roster. The asnwer is to make BV both GM and field general.

you know what I'm sayin' ?

by fxcarden on Feb 8, 2010 2:46 PM EST reply actions

Bobby V does his best work with a challanging roster

by t agee on Feb 8, 2010 3:24 PM EST reply actions

I don't think BobbyV will come to Flushing unless

He gets full control of the roster. Noway he lets Jeffy and Coupons dictate who will be on his team. At least Steve Phillips (he is gay right?) had autonomy even if he was too incompetent to use that autonomy.

"Wait till Biggus Dickus hears about this!"

by scott from peekskill on Feb 8, 2010 3:36 PM EST reply actions

bobby v is never coming back to the mets

so long as the wilpons are in charge.

"I only wanted a few things out of life -- a wife, children, to play baseball and to hunt deer." - Turk Wendell

by Rey-O on Feb 8, 2010 3:51 PM EST reply actions

Personally, I'd rather bring back Davey Johnson

although I’m not sure he wants to manage again. The thing about Bobby is that he wants a certain type of player, and some players simply won’t want to play for him. (See Floyd, Cliff.) If Bobby takes over the Mets and it turns out he clashes with one of the core players, are we going to give the player away?

"I've been trying transcendental meditation, and that helps me be passive and wait on the curve. I've got to find something else to hit the slider." - George (The Stork) Theodore

by StorkFan on Feb 8, 2010 10:15 PM EST reply actions