Lets give Jerry Manuel what he deserves..a contract!

To sit and listen to all those so called baseball experts talk on and on about how great the Mets have played under Jerry Manuel and then here them turn around in the same sentence and say that he should get a contract extension only if he makes the playoffs, is beyond belief. This team was all but dead under Willie Randolph, heck why Met management brought him back after last years historical collapse is still the question of this young century. Manuel has gotten these players, all of whom had shut down on Randolph, to pick up their games and has even gotten this under achieving pitching staff to throw competitively since taking over. Now with his "closer" out for the year and a middle relief that suffers from shell shock and neck spasms (turning to watch the ball rapidly leave the park does that to the neck of a pitcher)I think that for the Mets to be in first place is nothing short of spectacular and a testament to Manuel's ability to being a winning manager here. From the minute he took over this downtrodden team in California, Jerry Manuel has made it clear who is in charge, ask Jose Reyes. Ask the pitcher Manuel comes out to pull from a game or even a player who doesn't preform. Some have stated that the Mets, after last years collapse, don't want to be committed into carrying baggage into their new ball park next season. However, after they bungled the Randolph firing,he should have been shown the door at the end of the season last year, adhering to that policy, will only deprive them of Jerry Manuel's skill as a manager and a chance to make next season in that new park extra special.