There are few managers or coaches in recent memory who have gotten the town talking the way Terry Collins has, and does, sometimes in good ways, often in bad ways, always in interesting ways.
Saturday, he managed the 1,013th game of his tenure as a Met, one more than Davey Johnson — and maybe a good 500 or 600 more than most folks would’ve set as the “over” when he was hired Nov. 23, 2010. Longevity isn’t a synonym for success, though you rarely achieve any of the former without a whisper of the latter, and Collins is no exception.