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Could at least keep it a buck like9/4/2023 He’d technically be a first-year manager, but there would be a lot of advantages to a hire like this. Back when news of this move first dropped, I openly wondered if New York wanted Beltran associated with the organization to have him be Buck’s heir apparent. He’s also the guy who never managed a game for New York after getting hired to replace Mickey Callaway.Īfter working for YES Network, the Mets convinced him to join the organization in a front-office role. The man is considered one of the best outfielders in Mets history. So, there are one of three scenarios for Buck once this year is complete: get fired (which feels unlikely), get another year added onto his deal (which I’d be surprised to see happen), or manage on a one-year deal (which feels most likely). I haven’t seen it written anywhere about there being a fourth-year option included. The 2024 season will be the third and final campaign of Showalter’s three-year, $11.25 million deal with New York. And they’re just a year removed from winning 101 games. This is Cohen’s first situation where Buck is “his guy” whom he brought in after dismissing Luis Rojas at the end of 2021. Whether people like it or not, this is probably the most likely scenario. I’m jumping the gun here a little bit, but let’s do it anyway, yea? Here are five potential options for Mets manager next season, with four dudes joining Buck. One of those questions should be whether the Mets’ coaching staff should remain the same or get changed ahead of 2024. If New York’s disappointing season ends with no playoffs and maybe even a losing record, there will be some tough questions that need answers. But with the trade deadline approaching and the Mets looking like sellers, what’s the point of that? It wouldn’t accomplish much. Obviously, things can change and someone could still get their pink slip. Steve Cohen says Buck Showalter and Billy Eppler's jobs are safe for the remainder of the season /RAIL8mMH6P At least, that’s what he said back on June 28th: Not at least until the end of the season. Would it cost Mets manager Buck Showalter, general manager Billy Eppler, or someone else their job? Before team owner Steve Cohen held a recent press conference, I wondered when he’d lose patience with this futility. Buck is also the first to begin smoking in the elevator and provides cigarettes to most of the other ghostly elevator passengers.We’ve talked about how disappointing the Mets’ 2023 season has been on these here interweb pages quite a bit over the past few months. He does so by drawing clear connections between himself, Frick, Shawn, Will, and Carlson Riggs (whom Will plans to kill to avenge Shawn’s death). In Buck’s serious moments, he also attempts to make very clear to Will how the neighborhood’s cycle of violence functions and continues. He heckles and teases Will, though this comes off as an attempt to get Will to reconsider his choices. In death, Buck is a jokester and doesn’t take Will’s desire for revenge seriously. Around the time of his death, he passed his gun down to Shawn, along with the chain that Shawn was wearing when he died. Buck was killed when a man named Frick attempted to rob him. Will recognizes that all of Shawn’s advice about girls also came straight from Buck. As a mentor to Shawn, Buck passed along “the Rules” of the neighborhood and taught him how to handle his gun. This earned him a reputation as a skilled thief who always had expensive stolen items in his possession. Following Pop’s death when Buck was 16, Buck took Shawn under his wing, ceased selling drugs, and instead started to rob suburban houses. This attempt failed, however, and Will wonders if the “nighttime” is something Buck couldn’t escape. Buck was raised in a difficult family situation: his father was plagued by the “nighttime” (a kind of inner darkness or dangerous streak) while his stepfather was a preacher and tried to get Buck on the right path. As far as Will knows, Buck never went by anything else-the only time Will ever saw Buck’s given name was on his headstone. Though his real name was James, he acquired the nickname Buck because he couldn’t grow any facial hair as a young man. When Will meets Buck’s ghost in the elevator, Buck is wearing a T-shirt commemorating his own death. He’s tall and slim, has no facial hair, and wears gold chains around his neck.
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