Let’s play along that Mets officials will meet this week and that Mickey Callaway’s fate is yet to be determined.
In that scenario, the Mets will have to ponder this: If they bring Callaway back, it will almost certainly be as a lame duck. Does anyone really see the Wilpons/Brodie Van Wagenen tacking a year or more onto his contract just to give him peace of mind and some leverage?
So the Mets would be sending a lame duck back into a clubhouse in which no one would use “beloved” or “respected” to describe the manager.