At this point, one has to wonder why Lupica is such a shill for Showalter.
Sure, in a quid pro quo world, this will ensure access to Showalter's in-demand observational gems, such as, "run prevention is as important as run production" ... but he's giving that away on the cheap:
"Once Steve Cohen — worst rookie the Mets had this season — gets through chasing the star names as he looks for his next general manager, he ought to go hire Josh Byrnes, the 51-year-old vice president of baseball operations for the Dodgers, who sure seem to know how to do it.
Then Byrnes, if he gets the gig, should hire Buck Showalter to be the next manager of the Mets."
Let's talk all winter about Wilmer Flores. You guys wanna talk all winter about Wilmer Flores?:
"We can talk all winter about Wilmer Flores, our old friend now with the Giants, getting a bad call to end Game 5 against the Dodgers on Thursday night.
But it’s not as if Wilmer got jobbed on a 3-2 pitch with the bases loaded.
There were two outs, guy on first, he was up against Max Scherzer, against whom he was 0-for-17 lifetime in that moment, about to become 0-for-18."
Agreed.
But it was still an obviously bad call to end the game. A playoff game, at that.
No, it wasn't a 3-2 pitch with the bases loaded and two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning of a decisive playoff game with the home team losing by one run.
A situation that has probably occurred zero times in the history of baseball.
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