New York Mets: BVW says Kumbaya Callaway stays, culture needs change
By Joe Noa
It just keeps coming
Along with Van Wagenen’s support for Callaway, he announced that Yoenis Cespedes is out indefinitely because he fractured his ankle stepping into a hole on his ranch. Talk about getting the Bernie Madoff treatment again!
But I digress.
This is also a good time to address Robinson Cano‘s inability to put one foot in front of the other with increasing velocity for 90 feet. In the finale versus the Marlins, Cano bats in the top of the fourth inning with J.D. Davis on first. Cano swings at the first pitch and it rolls a couple of feet.
Cano, thinking a) it was a foul ball, and b) there were two outs as displayed on the scoreboard instead of one, stands there. Marlins’ catcher Chad Wallach pounces on the ball, picks it up in fair territory and fires to second base. The shortstop makes the force out then is shocked to see nobody running to first. He soft tosses to first, completing the “routine” 2-6-3 double play.
Cano stands there arguing with the umpire. The scoreboard says two outs, it’s up to the player to be situationally aware. Callaway comes out of the dugout to argue. About what? Anyone with a monitor knew the ball was fair. Additionally, the manager knew there was only one out in the inning at the start of the at-bat.
But I digress.
Callaway has to go before the media to explain why he did not bench Cano and explain to reporters what Cano was thinking. Then giving the struggling veteran a pass for making an honest mistake. Tough job considering Callaway wasn’t hired to play Carnac the Magnificent and read minds the way Johnny Carson did.
Who? YouTube it.