Early in the public portion of his Citi Field workday — the pregame press conference — Buck Showalter brought up the fickle forces of fate. “I always say if you want to make the baseball gods laugh…
I reminded him that in a Phoenix office building in February 1996, after he’d been forced out by George Steinbrenner and hired by the expansion Diamondbacks, he’d told me the following: “We would’ve won it all.”At least until the commissioner of baseball canceled the season and an annual October tradition that even World War II couldn’t shutter.
“I remember there was a long silence on the phone between the both of us,” the manager recalled. “Stick and I were both feeling the same thing. We both knew that so many things can change from one year to the next, and that we might not get another opportunity.” Before Carlos Carrasco secured his 13th victory on a rain-delayed Tuesday night, Showalter cited his players’ everyday approach as his greatest satisfaction in this 72-39 season.
As my colleague Larry Brooks pointed out, Showalter is the one most responsible for this culture change. He is the undisputed star of this team. It’s easy to see that the Mets are playing for their manager as much as they are playing for one another, and that the old man is having a blast.
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