What’s funny about this
Jerry Manuel is suffocating from the silence above him.
The embattled Mets manager admitted yesterday that he would “love to know” if the organization plans to bring him back next season, but he also isn’t about to seek out GM Omar Minaya or Jeff Wilpon for an answer.
What’s funny about this is that on the Mets’ radio broadcast last night, Howie Rose and Wayne Hagin anticipated exactly that type of gravitas from the Post in response to Manuel’s comment.
But Manuel, they explained, said what he said after having been asked the same question by the same reporter several different ways. Rose said Manuel essentially relented and said, “yeah, sure, I’d love to know,” when asked if he would prefer to know his job status for next season. Because who wouldn’t?
The writing’s on the wall for Manuel, and from a fan’s perspective, you know, fine. He bunts too often and mismanages the bullpen.
Puma’s doing his job obviously, trying to come up with some way to sell papers on the first night of what looks to be a long September for the Mets. But this is a nothing thing. Hagin and Rose dismissed Manuel’s comment as a throwaway line.
Not that it really matters one way or the other, I guess.
