Showalter says no sympathy in MLB: `People will step on your neck and laugh while you're bleeding'
Mets manager Buck Showalter expects little empathy from the rest of the major leagues for his team's sorry season. “You’re looking for sympathy up here, people will step on your neck and laugh while you’re bleeding,” Showalter said before Monday night's series opener against Arizona. New York's record was so bad the team's management gave up at the Aug. 1 trade deadline, jettisoning star pitchers Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander along with closer David Robertson, outfielders Mark Canha and Tomm