![David Brown of Big League Stew talked to Ron Darling:
DB: What do the Mets have to do? How hard is this going to be to fix? Is it a super rebuilding job, is it fine-tuning?
RD: When you have a team that has Jose Reyes, David Wright, Carlos Beltran, Jason Bay( and Angel Pagan after a big year, you’d say you yourself, “Boy, that’s not so bad.” But for whatever reason, it hasn’t worked out there, especially the past two seasons when they’ve been under .500 with a high payroll. I don’t think it’s a “blow it up and start all over” deal. The new general manager — usually when you go to a team that’s been under .500, you say, “Boy, we really have to re-do this thing.” I don’t think the Mets are that kind of team. Watching the San Diego Padresthis year, if you can pitch it and catch it, you can be in it.
DB: People really seem to like the Mets broadcast team; You and Gary Cohen and Keith Hernandez. Do you hear positive feedback from people who might not even be Mets fans?
RD: We work real hard at it. Gary Cohen is one of the best play-by-play guys in baseball. He’s not only a baseball historian but an incredible Mets historian as he grew up a Mets fan. And Keith Hernandez’s expertise; He’s probably forgotten more than I know. But also, he has a great sense of humor and keeps it light. Sometimes you’re lucky, sometimes the right personalities who certainly are not the same — I don’t know if we’d be friends off the field, out of the booth — but sometimes the perfect storm kind of gets together. That’s how I feel about our booth.
DB: Hernandez rubs you the wrong way, doesn’t he?
RD: No! I love … Keith [laughs]. He’s one of my favorite, dear friends. But he can say some funny things in the booth, but over 162 games, why not make it funny occasionally?
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David Brown of Big League Stew talked to Ron Darling:
DB: What do the Mets have to do? How hard is this going to be to fix? Is it a super rebuilding job, is it fine-tuning?
RD: When you have a team that has Jose Reyes, David Wright, Carlos Beltran, Jason Bay( and Angel Pagan after a big year, you’d say you yourself, “Boy, that’s not so bad.” But for whatever reason, it hasn’t worked out there, especially the past two seasons when they’ve been under .500 with a high payroll. I don’t think it’s a “blow it up and start all over” deal. The new general manager — usually when you go to a team that’s been under .500, you say, “Boy, we really have to re-do this thing.” I don’t think the Mets are that kind of team. Watching the San Diego Padresthis year, if you can pitch it and catch it, you can be in it.
DB: People really seem to like the Mets broadcast team; You and Gary Cohen and Keith Hernandez. Do you hear positive feedback from people who might not even be Mets fans?
RD: We work real hard at it. Gary Cohen is one of the best play-by-play guys in baseball. He’s not only a baseball historian but an incredible Mets historian as he grew up a Mets fan. And Keith Hernandez’s expertise; He’s probably forgotten more than I know. But also, he has a great sense of humor and keeps it light. Sometimes you’re lucky, sometimes the right personalities who certainly are not the same — I don’t know if we’d be friends off the field, out of the booth — but sometimes the perfect storm kind of gets together. That’s how I feel about our booth.
DB: Hernandez rubs you the wrong way, doesn’t he?
RD: No! I love … Keith [laughs]. He’s one of my favorite, dear friends. But he can say some funny things in the booth, but over 162 games, why not make it funny occasionally?
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