Here are a few thoughts:
Phillips is incredibly angry at Brooke Hundley and still blames her (here is a link to a previous interview she did) Phillips was asked if he and his wife are making it work, and his answer told us all we needed to know--they are trying and failing right now Phillips will do this again--he is not cured All in all a good interview with a fair amount of verbal deception by Phillips--I don't feel one ounce of pity for him, and he wants a lot of pity right now.- link
More importantly once again the Mets appear to have a flaw in the process of negotiating with players, they seem to be identifying players they want but seem to get bogged down by indecision. If they immediately broke off negotiations, I'd say they found the players price to be to high for what they saw his worth to be but that isn't the case, the Mets seem to be treading water almost waiting for another team to outbid them so have an excuse for not signing them. They're reminding me of a big government bureaucracy that identifies the problem and the resolution but struggles with the implementation of the plan specifically the finances.- link
Mets Minors Ranking:
Coming in at #16 is the New York Mets. The Mets are a system that doesn’t get the credit that it likely deserves, as a philosophy of aggressively promoting their Latin American talent has often led to deceiving results. We actually like the top of the Mets system far better than most people do. Additionally, their second tier talent is also deeper than most realize. That being said, it is still a system dotted with low ceiling college players that put up deceiving results in the opposite direction. Perhaps no system in baseball is more puzzling in their seemingly contradictory approach to talent development. That being said, we are a huge fan of their Latin American program, and find the type of high ceiling players that one would desire. - link
In "Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend," James Hirsch, author of "Hurricane: the Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter," has written an enormously entertaining and wide-ranging biography — a fitting tribute to Mays, the Hall of Fame ball player, and a thoughtful account of the complex and often misunderstood man. That this book got written at all is a notable accomplishment. Mays is famously prickly with reporters and refuses most requests for interviews. After seven years of trying, Hirsch finally got Mays to meet with him and talk. - link
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.
Manuel is counting on a healthy roster to keep his job, but he hasn't gotten much help from the front office. With the exception of Jason Bay, Jeff Wilpon and Omar Minaya have otherwise made no upgrades to a team that lost 92 games last year. - link
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