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2005 13-15 .464

2006 14-15 .483

2007 14-14 .500

We’re improving! Plus, he made sure to give Wilpon his precious meaningful September games!

I cannot stand his managing style… I do not know how many times his decisions (or lack of) caused the Mets a game…

Lets get someone here other than him… I’ll even take Bobby Valentine back…

And as for Willie’s performance down the stretch, he did get some quality hitting in these last 2 weeks. But he can’t regrow the torn and bruised muscles in an overworked pitcher’s arm.

What Willie did wrong was overuse the guys in the pen who were good in the first half (Heilman, Feliciano and Smith), just like Joe Torre does.

But unless you were willing to pitch Schoe or Mota in the seventh during May, you shouldn’t complain about Willie not doing the same to save arms. I bet if he had done that, you’d scream like the Yankees fans do when Torre pitches Farnsworth.

My condolences to all you fellow Met fans…if you can take any positives from this collapse…maybe from now on these players will no longer be bored during the regular season.

I tried to be positive as long as possible, tried to believe til the last out, and tried to find the silver lining over these final overcast weeks. In that spirit: We have two young, very good starting pitchers; we have a franchise player who (I think) we can all agree ‘gets it’ and will use this experience to build upon; we have a top player at a key position (cf); and we have a ton of money.

Good/Bad–depending on POV: Pedro, Glavine (yes, will live in infamy, but he can still be be an effective starter), Milledge, Pelfry, Gomez, Gotay, Castro, Omar (he was golden last year, not so much this year–great with the Spos, though, so I still believe).

Jose has, somehow, turned into a question mark. He’s young, of course…but he took at best a step sideways, at worst a huge step backwards (I know all his numbers and their relative value; who can question what we’ve seen in his eyes and attitude?)

And then there’s Willie. I don’t think he’s solely responsible for this team’s performance by any means, and I’ve given him the benefit of the doubt right up to the moment we lost the division. Obviously, he makes questionable tactical choices. He also has never gotten any kind of credit from most fans for the team’s success. And he will return next year.

But I have had it with him, and it happened at the game Friday night. David Newhan? Jeff Conine? Yes, these were instances in one game of 162, but I’m finally convinced that his demeanor and decisions had enough effect to cost this team the division.

Of course the players must perform. Of course Omar owns a significant portion of responsibility.

For everyone who has said this would happen, congrats: you were right, I was wrong.

There’s a lot to do this winter, and honestly there are maybe five players I would adamantly protect: Maine, Wright, Perez, Pedro, and Pelfry. This doesn’t mean I’d give up on the rest, just that I’d be…more accepting of their departure if it meant improvement. And including Jose on that list sucks, and it would take a lot, but there it is.

Way to go everyone who went and cheered these guys the last 3 weeks, and to those who stayed for the last out today.

Ugh.

Omar’s year wasnt as good as 2006. So what? You compete with what you have. If Omar was right 100% of the time, he’d be a god, not a solid baseball exec.

People wanna hang Wille now, but he’s put together some solid years, winning records.

I won’t bash Willie. I won’t bash Omar. They took chances, they didnt come out as well as they could have.

Everyone was down on Alou, and he was a stud. So many ‘fans’ here have long term memories of a goldfish.

Athletes are human, they arent robots. They tried, they blew it. Think about it all winter, make better calls. and don’t – this means you Jose – rely on your talent, because Jeter has a fraction of your skills, but twice your cold-blooded assassin instincts.

I will point the fingers at people like Reyes who let those little things slip. I dont think he cant turn it around, but he’s no longer in the discussion for best shortstop in NYC much less in MLB.

I am still a MET FAN. They’re our team, and we’ll be back in the spring.