What would wind you up more? Buck Showalter as manager of the Toronto Blue Jays … or Buck Showalter as general manager of the Blue Jays? Showalter, bête noire to a generation of Blue Jays fans, is among a group of candidates given second interviews this week for the New York Mets manager job – and is in fact considered the frontrunner, with a follow-up scheduled for Friday, per Jon Heyman . So I asked Paul Godfrey, former Blue Jays president and chief executive officer, to tell me about the time Showalter interviewed for the Blue Jays general manager’s job in 2001. Then as now, Showalter was a TV analyst in between jobs after being fired by the Arizona Diamondbacks following three years as manager. The Blue Jays had fired Gord Ash, and although the job would eventually go to J.P. Ricciardi, Godfrey and long-time advisor Herb Solway remember fondly the five hours of their time that were taken up by Showalter. “He was so knowledgeable about every team in baseball, and the interview...