On any given day, you dont know which Manuel will show up. (COURTESY NY POST VIA GOOGLE)

MATTHEW FALKENBURY
ASSISTANT EDITOR

When Jerry Manuel steps up to a microphone and addresses the media, we all know that we are in for quite a show.

It could be Spin Doctor Jerry, who in my opinion is reading off a card that was given to him by Jeff Wilpon, and tries to convince people that all is well and that the cavalry is coming soon to rescue us all.

Then again, we could get Guru Jerry, who tries to confuse the media and fans with Bill Cosby like stories and jokes that mean nothing and frustrate us even more so.

Or we could get my personal favorite, Little Orphan Jerry, which entails Jerry practically begging upper management to make some kind of move because he knows, like the rest of us that this team is going nowhere fast.

Tonight we got a little bit of both the Spin Doctor and the Orphan when it came to Jerry Manuel talking to the media after the 8-0 beat down the Los Angeles Dodgers, (Yes Fred, they aren’t in Brooklyn anymore) gave the Mets tonight.

At one point of the press conference, Jerry told the media that the entire team was in a funk and was going to have to find a way out of it. This is what the Spin Doctor Jerry does, he tries to make it seem like its just a thing that the team will get out of, when we all know, that this team, funk or no funk, is just flat out bad.

At another point, Jerry then broke out the Little Orphan portion of the press conference, saying “When you don’t hit or hit singles, you’re a team that looks lethargic, and that’s what we are right now.”

Well, if that isn’t a cry for some kind of help, any kind of help, then I don’t know what is. That is classic Little Orphan Jerry, the cry for help to try to bring some life to his “lethargic” team, begging Omar to stop posturing and actually do something with this team.

To give you an example of just how a real team goes about its business. I was at Fenway Park last night watching the Red Sox beat on an inferior Oakland A’s team. I saw a team that doesnt have a hitter batting over .300, nobody outside of Jason Bay having more then 15 HR and 45 RBI, while starting a journeyman SS in Nick Green and a call up in Aaron Bates at First base.

I saw this same Red Sox team go out and get a win that looked so workman like, that it was almost disheartening to know that the Mets when even fully healthy couldn’t come close to a performance like the Red Sox had tonight.

It gets to the point as a Mets fan, that for all of Jerry’s little acts that he puts on, all the reassurances from Omar that all will be well soon enough and that knowing a 2-0 lead is just a little too much to come back from these days for the Mets, that the word frustration doesnt even begin to explain how it feels to be a Mets fan.

That through all the things that have gone wrong with this team this year, the idea that these guys are “lethargic” and looking like they have given up midway through a game is an utter joke.

But of course we’ll all be there again to watch and hope that the Mets can finally get it together, if only for one day, cause its just as Little Orphan Jerry says….

Tomorrow is only a day away.