Don’t consider this a defense of Mickey Callaway. Regard it more like a tip of the hat to time.
And perhaps a nod to logic, as well: If we afford some growing pains to highly touted rookie players, should we do the same to rookie managers, as well? Should we let them get through a whole campaign before rendering full judgment?
Callaway, his inaugural season as a skipper having turned disastrous with the Mets, found himself in the center of a mini-storm on Tuesday in the wake of a head-scratching move Monday night — that actually worked.