Gleason’s Sporting World: Mets’ Collins has been better than expected

Published: 2:00 AM – 05/29/11

Points to ponder while wondering if by season’s end, Terry Collins will be the Mets MVP.

That would be a good thing, it really would, because you could barely fill a phone booth with the number of Mets fans excited when he got hired.

Collins has done about as well as possible with a collection of battered players and bruised egos, a team without its ace and a poor imitation, a left-fielder who forgot how to hit and a third baseman who staggered to the disabled list. he has been a steady hand, equal parts forceful and cajoling.

Collins’ track record suggests that he has ample time to wear on his players. He’s been exactly what the Mets have needed through one-third of the season. their record doesn’t begin to show his work.

There was a time not long ago when Tiki Barber’s main focus was helping the Giants win football games, and a time when he almost always said the right thing, and I sure miss those times.

Maybe the most alarming part isn’t that so many cyclists have accused Lance Armstrong of using steroids. It’s that few, if any, have rushed to his defense.

Good for David Einhorn getting himself a $200 million toy courtesy of the Wilpons. Until Einhorn digs deeper so two letters in his title can change – from ‘minority’ to ‘majority’ owner – I’m having trouble getting charged up over the deal.

Maybe in time Einhorn will kick in the cash to buy out Wilpon the way Wilpon bought out Nelson Doubleday nine years ago. that time isn’t now.

Doesn’t this wacky old guy, Harold Camping, know anything? the world doesn’t officially end until the Jets win the Super Bowl.

Let me be clear that I was rooting for Kirstie Alley to knock off Hines Ward for the “Dancing With the Stars’’ title.

Ward has won enough lately. Alley hasn’t won anything since she won over Sam Malone.

When Sandy Alderson says, “the financial situations are somewhat more challenging than I had originally anticipated,’’ it kind of reads like this:

“is it too late for a do-over on my most recent employment decision? I didn’t know I was going to work at the Dollar Store.’’

If this lockout continues, I’m OK with the Jets-Giants doing a little 7-on-7 on Middletown High’s plush surface.

It has to be more entertaining than a handful of Giants trying to look interested going half-speed at Hoboken High.

Roger Goodell pointed out that this year’s NFL draft had 4 million fewer people watching and that ticket sales are down.

Both of which serve as a reminder: Fans move on when their sport moves on. They moved on without baseball in 1994 and a slice of ’95. They moved on without hockey in 2004-2005, hard as that might be to imagine. They will move on without football if the sides continue to take their stupid pills into September.

Word is that included in Einhorn’s deal is a Citi Field seat allowing him to see the entire field.Jo-Jo Reyes’ 28-start streak without a win isn’t nearly as stunning as his ability to remain on big league rosters for that long.

I’m not sure how many employers will allow you to fall short of your goal 28 straight times.

I’d say Jose Canseco tweeting marriage proposals to Lady Gaga comes as close as anything to the dictionary definition of “creepy.”

“I’m your Knight in baseball armor,’’ he tells her on one.

Yup, that’s our Jose.

Maybe it was just a talk-radio thing last week, but a lot of folks seemed to be predicting LeBron James would overtake Michael Jordan as the greatest player in league history.

I’m just wondering if it would be OK to shelve that conversation until at least, say, LeBron wins one title.one.

Is LeBron the first player since Jordan retired who deserves to be in the same sentence as Michael? Absolutely. but better? LeBron has a long, long ways to go before we should waste our time with that conversation.

Mets fans hereby order the team to officially change injury listings – R.a. Dickey being the latest – from “day-to-day’’ to “month-to-month.’’

It only seems like 95 percent of Derek Jeter’s hits have been five-hoppers up the middle, right?

Am I the only one who doesn’t get the MLB Fan Cave?

Two guys watching all 2,430 regular-season games and every playoff game?

Like… why? or better yet, how? I have enough trouble going back and forth on the dial to the Mets and Yanks.

What constitutes watching a game, anyway? Catching every other inning?

You want to tell me you saw every game, fine. show me your scorecards of them.

Now, that’s watching a game.

See what happens when Fred from Flushing can’t get through to WFAN?

He goes and calls the New Yorker and Sports Illustrated.

Of course, who can blame him? At least he’s not constantly interrupted by the print reporters.

kgleason@th-record.com

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