Terry Collins Is Wally Backman?

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• t agee February 22, 2011 at 8:04 am

  Between the long term guaranteed contracts, the lack of adequate or well conceived back ups, no competition for playing time it was very comfortable for the players.

  I used to wonder where they all were 20 minutes before the game. Now I know. A lot of them were playing cards.

  How much more comfortable does it get.
  • Harry C February 22, 2011 at 2:00 pm

    no matter the subject, you turn your post into hate for everything about this club, except of course for cheap help., So it seems what you really hate is ball players making good money. In other words since you don’t have the skills to make good money you hate on those that do and hate on those that paid them. Poor t agee. Nah, you must hate a lot of folks in every walk of life.
    • t agee February 22, 2011 at 2:49 pm

      Harry you couldn’t possibly be more wrong. Your speaking about something you couldn’t possibly know and you are as wrong about that as everything else.

      I just don’t see why it makes sense to pay El-Duque the largest salary of his career when someone else got his best years. I don’t see what sense it makes to pay Bay his largest salary when someone else got his best years. Wagner, Alou, Castillo, Schowenweiss. It doesn’t make business sense.

      If you want to win baseball games why not get your players best years? Not their most expensive, injury prone and declining years and cost yourself draft picks in order to do so. It just doesn’t add up. That’s how you wind up with the largest payroll and 11 losing seasons in 20 years.

      I never had any “losing seasons” and either did my employees.

      You have a sick hatred of anyone who rolls up their sleeves and works hard to plan ahead for the future because your used to everything being handed to you.

      That’s why you want to import the quick fix here for every need despite 20 years of proof that it will never work.
      • Mark V February 22, 2011 at 3:13 pm

        Well besides from the lovers quaual you two are having I do agree with t agee. The Mets were not handled Properly in regards to Finance or Training. No one had to work for it except bench players looking for time or Rookies looking to prove themselves. Million Dollor Players were being put on the field that had no right being there, but were there because of how much they were making instead of on the bench because they sucked. The team suffered for it. Fundies, Fundies, Fundies!!! Play hard to the last out run every ball out like it was the last out of the World Series. Bay and Pagan did this last yr. and if the rest of the team followed suit we’d be hard to beat this year.
• Metsie February 22, 2011 at 9:48 am

  It should not be all that suprising that they are similar since both were pretty much the same type of player as well.

  Both were scrappy types who were never going to be HOF but made up for their lack of talents by working and playing harder than everyone else.
  • Carlos Alvarez February 22, 2011 at 10:19 am

    I did not know that about Collins. I have no recollection of seeing him play.
• Mr North Jersey February 22, 2011 at 10:20 am

  Nice find Joe.

  lookin forward to seeing if this fire indeed carries into the season.

  Can’t wait.
  • Joe D February 22, 2011 at 1:06 pm

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• Jerry M February 22, 2011 at 12:55 pm

  This is what this team needs a manager with fire in his heart for the team. I thought of Dan Ugglas comment when I heard David Wright say it. Maybe they all will play above their ability this year and we will win the WC or 1st place.
• The Coop February 22, 2011 at 1:07 pm

  This team doesn’t necessarily have “underdogs” per se, but there is an underdog mentality. More of the ilk of there are a couple of guys with walk years who have something to prove, young guys who are eager to please, heck even David Wright who has been annoying this off-season but hey, whatever. Not sure about Wild card win, but they could surely be in the thick of things if they truly believe they can play to their abilities. What have we been saying for the past few years – that *if only* this team were “healthy,” it would be a match made in the baseball heaven. As for those quotes, I met Terry Collins at an event, and let me tell you…As much as I wanted Backman and loved him, TC is the man for this team right now (and not just because we have the same initials).
  • Harry C February 22, 2011 at 2:03 pm

    You say that now but when his mouth roars without finding out facts about a player not hated like Castillo is, we will see why there were rebellions in his past. Imagine if he blasted Wright for being on time when his brother was having surgery. Since it was just Castillo, it was ok wasn’t it!!! lol.
    • Mr North Jersey February 22, 2011 at 3:08 pm

      You do know Collins has apologized right? What more do you want from the man?
    • alwaysnextyear February 22, 2011 at 4:13 pm

      after Jerry and his inmates running the asylum approach, I don’t care if COllins gets too intense at some point. Let the team get riled up. Might be good for them!
      • Metsie February 22, 2011 at 5:03 pm

        Not saying Collins is going to be a problem here, But think about how well things worked out for K-Rod when he got riled up?

        Balance is the key to everything in life, even success!