Filed under: Braves, Dodgers, Yankees, Executive TakeWith the news that Joe Torre is calling it quits as manager of the Dodgers at season's end, joining Braves manager Bobby Cox, I found the sudden urge to want to be a general manager again.
You see, my New York Mets teams of the late 1990s and early 2000s just couldn't beat Torre's Yankees or Cox's Braves. It drove me crazy. They were in my head and, I believe, in the head of my Mets' clubs. With Torre and Cox retiring, there is nothing stopping me now.
OK, so that noise you just heard are Mets fans everywhere screaming "No!!!! Not Phillips again!!!" I admit there may be a few other things stopping me from being a winning GM again, like not having a team to generally manage. But you get what I mean.
I was Mets general manager from July 1997-June 2003. Yes, your math is right. That was right in the middle of the Braves' run of 14 consecutive division titles and the Yankees' three consecutive World Series titles. My Mets were second to the Braves in 1998-2000, while we lost to the Yankees in the 2000 World Series.
What was so frustrating was the fact that not only were we not the best in our division, but we were also second best in our own city.
A guy can develop an inferiority complex because of that. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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