Not sure how much of his tenure was his fault, but I never saw a baseball team with such high pre-season expectations fall flat on their faces as the 2003 Mets.
he sucked and I don't know why he was ever hired Him and Jeff Torborg were the worst time wasters the Mets ever hired and I think they both hated the franchise.
Howe's most often used line was "they battled out there".