New York Mets: Yoenis Cespedes situation and more with Mike Vaccaro

We take a look at the recent happenings with the New York Mets in an exclusive interview with NY Post reporter Mike Vaccaro.

The topic of the day is what has been going on with the New York Mets. Instead of hearing from us we were lucky to get the voice of an insider. Mike Vaccaro of the New York Post was gracious enough to give us a few minutes on the Yoenis Cespedes situation and the general state of affairs with the team in Flushing. We started with the Cespedes ordeal:

Yoenis Cespedes

Empire Writes Back: Unwrap this Cespedes situation for us. How did we get from a home run in his return, to his comments after the game, and everything that has happened since?

Mike Vaccaro: Yeah it’s a great question. Clearly the Mets were kind of blindsided by this. Certainly the writers that surrounded his locker after the game were blindsided by this, so, it’s a great question that I don’t know that we will ever have the actual answer to.

We hope that after he talks to enough doctors that he can at least get a diagnosis that everybody can agree with.

It’s stranger that they would take him off of the DL for what might only be one day if they knew that there was a possibility that he might have surgery that would require an extensive rehab. It’s all very odd.

EWB: Do you really think that Mickey (Callaway) didn’t know what he said or is that what he was told to say?

MV: I don’t know that he was told to say anything which is kind of even worse. I just think he was ill-prepared. He was trying to decide on the fly what to say but he’s not very good at thinking on his feet; he’s not good in these press conference situations.

The way it has been presented is that he misspoke. I have a hard time believing that. But, you know what? I also don’t know how the inner workings of Mickey Callaway‘s mind work.

It that’s what he was told to say somebody should be fired because that was the absolute wrong thing to say.