 Meanwhile, the Mets have lost eight of their last 12. Mickey Calloway, Jason Vargas, both fine for their roles in that incident with the reporter after the loss to the Cubs yesterday. Calloway verbally attacking a reporter. Vargas, a physical threat. So earlier today, Calloway met with the media in a bizarre sequence that had two different sessions. I mean, you know, Billy Martin punched a reporter one time. You know, I mean, it's just part of this game, you know, it's something that, you know, hey, I'm a passionate guy about baseball and I'm a tough competitor. And sometimes you'll see it with the umpires. Sometimes you'll see it with the players. And the thing is, is you guys don't need to see it directed towards you guys. That's, you guys have a job to do. I understand that. I've always understood that. And you guys don't need it directed at you. Are you sorry? I, like I said, I can control my reactions better. Absolutely. You know, I understand that I get some feedback that, you know, that I wanted you guys to know that in my meeting with Tim, I apologize for my reaction. I shouldn't, I regret it. I regret the, you know, the distractions it's caused to the team. And, you know, like I said earlier, it's something that we'll learn from. So, you know, it's something I'm not proud of. I'm not proud of the distraction. I'm not proud of what I did to Tim. You know, so, you know, for that, I'm definitely sorry. Manager, usually the fall guy, not saying it's all his fault. He has a year to go on his contract as Callaway after this season going forward, though. And we had heard rumblings a while ago. Should the Mets move on from him as manager? Would they be better off doing that sooner rather than later? So I think they would be better off without him. But here's the caveat. OK. Who do they have? They don't have anybody that they can put in there right now. And I think that's why he still has his job. Because there's no way that you can sit here and say that just the way he's handled the situation, that that's who you want representing your ball club. For me, I'm watching that video. And when the reporter says, are you sorry? And there's a stammering, a stuttering. And then it's, well, my actions, blah, blah, blah. I am sorry. I'm sorry. I apologize. I screwed up. I don't want it. But the thing about it is, who are you going to put in there? You know, is Joe Girardi going to come out right now in this situation? You know, that's the reality of it. And they don't have anybody that they could replace where everybody would say, yeah, this is great. So I think he has it by default. And the more time he gets, either he could write the ship or he can continue to go spiral. My mix of stuff, his pitching was his specialty. And that's what their question was. He was my pitching coach when I was in Cleveland. So I had a great relationship with Mickey. So I know him really well. But to see what's gone down with the New York Mets this season has been, it's been tough to watch. I think there was so much excitement coming into this season, especially the moves they made the off season, bringing over guys like Robbie Cano, right? You got Wilson-Ramos, Edwin Diaz, right? I mean, expectations were high again for the New York Mets. And now it just kind of seems, like after this blow up, that it kind of seems like they're back where they were a couple of years ago, looking for that leader moving forward. And obviously I think that that atmosphere that they've created over there does not breed winning. I don't know if Mickey Calloway is the guy. I don't know who's the guy over there, but they need to do something over there to change up the just the karma, just the overall aura over there, because it doesn't seem like it's a place you'd want to be playing. And ownership did apologize, but I know that's different than him apologizing. Is there five games below 500? All right, let's welcome in our MLB insider, John Marosi from a reporter standpoint. John, it's good to see you. How do you think the Mets should have handled this differently? How could they have handled it any better? Well, good evening, Chris. I would say this, certainly on the Mets, of course, as you mentioned, they did find both Calloway and Vargas here, but to me, that's secondary to how they handled it today. And there was really no apology at all from Vargas. And with Calloway, as Eric mentioned, it took him two tries to get it right, which makes you wonder how he really felt. And so that to me is the key question here. And I think for the Mets as well, you would like to, as a professional observing it, it's your job to maintain a positive environment around your club. And there was a way to handle this yesterday and certainly even earlier today that would have quelled the story a bit and the Mets simply didn't do that. So I think that to me is an essential part of the job right now. And as a reporter, I was disappointed in general. The fine is one thing. I'm not worried about the fine. I'm worried more about the way that the respect is shown or not shown to the media who covers the team every day. And certainly in New York, there are a lot of those reporters. Now, Mickey did get it right in saying that certainly there is that give and take and there are certainly unavoidable encounters that are maybe not collaborative between the media and managers. And I got to say, Chris, I had one back in 08 and Nick was partially to blame for it. Now, Nick, you did nothing wrong. But I'm well, here we go. Let's roll the tape here. August of 2008, I was covering this game for the Tigers, Detroit Free Press. Nick hits his walk-off home run. Now, I go to the Tigers clubhouse and sit with a great future Hall of Famer, Jim Leland. And I asked him if Nate Robertson would make his next start. Now, Nate had started this game and it was like 5-1 Detroit. Then it was 5-2, 5-3, 5-4, 5-5. Nick hits his home run that basically ends the Tigers season. And I asked Jim Leland about how Nate Robertson had pitched earlier in the game and if he'd make his next start. Jim basically said, I'm paraphrasing here, John, I would greatly appreciate it if you would to withdraw yourself from the manager's office right now with the recorder and excuse yourself from the premises right now, to which I obliged. And as Nick and Eric both know, there's a hallway that leads from the manager's office down to the clubhouse there at the visiting clubhouse at Kamisky, now a guaranteed rate field where basically every player in the Tigers clubhouse could look up and say, who was it that got the skipper a little upset? And they saw 26-year-old John Morosie walking with my head down like a hose, Morosie. What did he say this time? So again, now the next day, to wrap up the story quickly, Jim did apologize. I apologized to him and said, you know what, there's probably a better time to ask it and we moved on. That's a little harder to do now. Of course, back then there were not quite as many television networks, social media wasn't a thing. It was harder to move past things but that I think speaks to maybe how well Jim handled it the next day back then. And maybe Mickey probably could have taken a page from the great skipper, Jim Leland, today. All right, I'm gonna politely ask you to leave the premises from this show. I can't believe that! For the I-Kid, because I care actually more from JP later on, the Yankees maybe making a trick.