Just forty-nine games into his professional managerial career, Mickey Callaway has re-taught us two valuable lessons:
1) No matter how formal or impressive your preparation, managing a major league team carries a learning curve.
2) No matter who resides in the manager’s office, the Mets will be the Mets.
The Mets’ replacement for Terry Collins arrived with much acclaim (including some here) thanks to his intelligence, youth and experience. Now that we’ve arrived at the Memorial Day benchmark, it’s time to see how well Callaway has lived up to such acclaim via his first quarterly(ish) report card.