Mickey deserves to be fired, he is not a good manager, but this is also not his fault. This all falls on the Wilpons. Look at the teams history going back to when Doubleday bought the team in the early 80's. He turned them from the biggest joke in baseball to a world champion within a few years. Not just that, they had a great farm. Doubleday was a hands Off owner that let the baseball people do their work. After 86 Fred Wilpon became a majority owner and everything started to gradually crumble. Fred was a hands on owner and who thought he knew baseball. The Mets became the biggest joke in baseball by 93. Things didn't change until 98 when Doubleday finally said enough is enough and overruled Wilpon on trading for Piazza. Fred Wilpon did not want to trade for Piazza and he didn't want to resign Piazza. Doubleday left and the Mets went back to that mediocrity of the early 90's until Minaya became GM and they were hands off for a season or two. The Mets were a game away from going to the world series. But then the Wilpons couldn't help themselves and it all went down hill again. Then Sandy came in and MLB basically forced the Wilpons to butt out and it took a while but they went to a world series. But the Wilpons can't help themselves. Close enough is good enough for them, now we're back to being a joke. Ive been a fan since 92, almost 30 fukking years, the few brief and fleeting moments of success we've had have happened when the Wilpons were forced to sit out. But at the end of the day it doesn't matter who the GM is or the manager, the story always ends the same, it's like the movie groundhogs day. It's the same story, bad trades, bad free agent signings, poor player development, lack of going the extra mile when then Mets are actually good. They didn't try to get back after 06 or 15 they actually got worse, anonymously slamming players in the press when they start rocking the boat a little. It's been the same thing rinse and repeat my entire fandom. Mickey deserves to be fired, and it may spark the team for a bit but at the end of the day it'll be the same ol story and the only constant will be the Wilpon's.