The dress rehearsal lasted six weeks and progressed without a noticeable glitch. Now it gets real for Mickey Callaway, new manager of the Mets. Make that new manager, period.
Mickey Ball will be unveiled to the legions at Citi Field on Thursday, when the 42-year-old Callaway assumes his perch in the first-base dugout on Opening Day against the Cardinals to usher in a new Mets era.
“For me, the best thing is he’s pretty young,” Yoenis Cespedes said Wednesday following a team workout. “He thinks more the way we think, the players. I think that is a big point.