He just said a "fiery manager may be the right choice" for the Mets right now, "with or without experience." Well, that is Wally Backman, so in a few weeks we'll see if he was just trying to appease us Mets fans who want Wally with these opening remarks or he is the new manager.

And why was the commissioner's office so quick to get rid of him? Naturally, the Mets get him, right? He'll be like the Art Howe of GM's...oh wait, he hired him in Oakland.

Mets fans will probably remember him as a liquidator rather than builder.

On another note, the last team before the Royals to win a Series after losing it the previous year was Sandy's own 1989 Oakland Athletics. Could the 2016 Mets be the next?

However, there have been times during Mr. Alderson’s time as a Met executive when his droll sense of humor has rubbed me (and apparently many other Mets fans) the wrong way. When the Mets had a particularly lousy starting outfield and Sandy Alderson was asked about it by sports writers, Mr. Alderson somewhat flippantly responded, “What outfield?”

And, when the New York Yankees traded for star outfielder/slugger Giancarlo Stanton, the Mets’ beat sports writers asked Sandy Alderson why the Mets had not pursued Stanton in a trade of their own with the Marlins, Anderson replied, “But, we have Brandon Nimmo.” Brandon Nimmo!?! That would be like if Detroit Tiger star right fielder Al Kaline had become available for trade in 1969, and the then-New York Mets general manager said something like, “But, we have Ron Swoboda and Art Shamsky in right field.”

I realize that Fred and Jeff Wilpon would never trade for Giancarlo Stanton and his long-term, humongous contract, and Sandy Alderson could never publicly admit it, but why did Sandy have to come up with that nonsense of unfairly equating/comparing Brandon Nimmo with Giancarlo Stanton in such a smug and almost condescending manner? Sandy could have just said that the Mets and the Marlins just did not match-up in trade negotiations or even that the Mets did not want to trade with another team in the NL East.

More recently, you have to question why Sandy fired veteran Mets hitting instructor Chili Davis and brought in someone named Hugh Quattlebaum. Hugh Quattlebaum!?! Who the heck is he?

And, apparently, Sandy did not perform his “due diligence” in hiring (and not thoroughly investigating) Jared Porter, the man Alderson chose as the team’s new general manager. Well, we all know how “well” that worked out with Porter being accused of sexually harassing a female sports writer by, among other things, sending the young woman, sexually explicit photographs of himself. New Mets team owner Steve Cohen quickly acted in firing Porter from his job.

But then, Sandy, who is a graduate of Dartmouth College, Harvard Law School and served as a USMC officer in Vietnam during that tragic war, really put his foot in his mouth, when the Harvard University-trained attorney inexplicably blurted out the country of origin of that female sports writer, who reported Jared Porter’s alleged sexual harassment of her.

With the team’s extremely disappointing play this year, it really is time for team owner Steve Cohen to “encourage” the 72-year-old Sandy Alderson to retire and for Mr. Cohen to reach out to a younger and successful baseball executive like Theo Epstein.

Thanks for your efforts, Mr.Alderson, but it’s time to retire gracefully, like the late, great Frank Cashen did.