Olney: Time is running out for Mets manager Mickey Callaway

Earlier this season, a club executive lamented the practice of firing staffers early in a season, which, he believes, makes a franchise look ridiculous. You spend many hours together in meetings during the offseason, evaluating players and developing plans, and then you have two months together in spring training.

"Then you have a few bad weeks and you fire a guy?" he asked rhetorically. "What you're really saying is that your process was [flawed]. If you're ready to fire someone in April or May, then that means you had doubts about him during the winter, and you should've made your move then.

"It just comes off as an excuse, finger-pointing."

But that's where the New York Mets might be soon.…