00:00The bottom line is this. Steve Cohen told him to fire Mendoza.
00:03I mean, if you don't read between the lines on that, then you're not paying attention.
00:06Mendoza was his hire. He did not want to fire him, which is why he did not fire him at
00:10the end of April,
00:11when a lot of Mets fans were calling for him to be fired, much like in Philadelphia.
00:15They fired Rob Thompson. They bring in Don Mattingly, turned everything around, saved the season.
00:20Now he's right. In Boston, it hasn't worked.
00:22The Red Sox are in last place in the American League East after filing Alex Corr.
00:26So there's no guarantee that you replace Mendoza and whomever you replace him with that it's immediate success
00:33because you have two great examples. One team it didn't work with is the Red Sox.
00:37The other team it's obviously worked in spades, and that's Philadelphia.
00:41Look, this guy is going to go down with the ship, David Stearns,
00:45and the fact that he still believes this is a talented baseball team, I guess he has to say that
00:50because he has to go to work and see these guys every single day.
00:53But I think we learned a valuable lesson here, and that is Steve Cohen is now going to be far
00:59more intimately involved
01:01in what goes on here. I think he trusted David Stearns.
01:05Whatever David said he wanted to do, he did, without stroking a check or certain hires.
01:10And now that it's come down to be egg on his face,
01:13I don't think David Stearns has complete carte blanche anymore, nor should he.
01:17He drapeps, you know, if given the줄 have been created for this band,
01:17theilerintegrÃas are so great advice.
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