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BP.COM POLL: What should happen to failed-but-beloved Cyclones manager Wally Backman

The Brooklyn Paper

The Brooklyn Cyclones have just completed one of their best — yet painfully unsatisfying — seasons in the team’s 10-year history. So it raises an important question: What should happen to manager Wally Backman — who is beloved, but who ultimately failed to win the New York–Penn League championship?

Met fans want him at the helm in Flushing.

Angry Cyclone fans want him fired.

Other Cyclone fans want him to come back to Brooklyn to finish the job.

What do you think? Take our quick poll below — and tell your friends:

Reader poll

PROMOTE HIM! Make Backman Mets manager.

FIRE HIM!: Make sure he never manages the Cyclones again.

BRING HIM BACK!: Backman must finish the job in Brooklyn — namely, by winning a championship with the Cyclones.

Reader Feedback

Jack from Flatbush says:
Failed? You have to be kidding. He was the best thing to happen to Brooklyn this year and the best thing to happen to those kids. Give him the Mets' job and let him wait for his boys to come up. The alternative, realistically, is that he will end up in say, Florida. Then we would only get to see him win at Citifield a few times a year.
Sept. 16, 2010, 1:46 pm
James Keller from Ridgewood says:
WALLY DIDN'T FAIL. THE PLAYOFF/CHAMPIONSHIPS ARE DIFFERENT. THE CYCLONES WERE EXPECTED TO WIN AND GOT A SURPRISE FROM PLAYERS WHO WENT ALL OUT AND DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO LOSE BECAUSE THEY WERE SURPRISED TO BE IN THE CHAMPIONSHIIP IN THE FIRST PLACE.
THE cYCLONES COMPLETELY DOMINATED THE ENTIRE LEAGUE DURING THE REGULAR SEASON AND THAT SPEAKS FOR ITSELF. FRANKLY, I WOULD BE HAPPY FOR WALLY IF HE GOT A MAJOR LEAGUE POSITION (THE DAMONDBACKS WERE JUST SO CHICKEN S***T IN HIRING THEN CHANGING THEIR MIND ABOUT BACKMAN IN 2004). FOR ENTIRELY SELFISIH REASONS HOWEVER, I HOPE HE IS BACK WITH THE CYCLONES NEXT YEAR.
Sept. 16, 2010, 11:16 pm

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