SPORTSbyBROOKS.com (via the New York Post) breaks this story of interim manager Jerry Manuel compared Mets fans to fertilizer.
During this Amazin’-ly bad season, Mets reliever Aaron Heilman has been hearing it from the home crowd, through harsh heckling & bountiful booing. Manuel came to the defense of his put-upon pitcher on Sunday by saying how Heilman has been holding up the harassment – through the use of farming phrases:
“It’s very, very fertile ground for growth in Shea Stadium. It’s fertile ground for a team’s growth and development. Sometimes, fertile ground has fertilizer.”
Realizing the crap he’d soon be taking from mad Mets fans, Manuel tried to sweeten up his scatological comparison:“Fertilizer is a good thing,” Manuel said before the Mets’ (Sunday) afternoon contest against the Rockies. “It’s a good thing. You get the greatest results – get the most beautiful plants – when you put it in that type of fertile soil. That’s what we have the opportunity to do.”
Dumping off a load like that, Jerry would be a great fertilizer salesman.
Nice analogy. The front office just ran off Willie Randolph and this is the best Manuel can come up with to why fans are booing one of his players? One would think he would trend more lightly given the situation.
