If only we could cover him with a canvas bag and lock him in a basement for 30 years.

Slow down there, egghead. One thing at a time.

I do not think you are whining. To me Willie can be a weakness but I strongly feel that he has learned from last year. But that does not stop me from worrying until everything is clinched. I think the weakness is bench and bullpen.

you don’t just complain. you actually don’t know what your talking about.

gotay is one-dimensional. if that. he hit well for 2 months in his career (minors and majors). terrible fielders. decent baserunner.

as for milledge, his behavior was inappropriate during that marlins series. it led to a ball thrown at castillo’s bad knee and a huge brawl including reyes and olivo.

terrible fielder? id say avergage fielder, eve if he his “1 dimensional” you still do not say that by basically calling out your player. bobby cox has NEVER spoken badly about player to the media. Lets not forget in 2 straight games against your main division rival in the 9th inning 2 players got thrown out and he did not DO A THING! it would have been nice to see him try and light a fire under them, especially since that was the series that started the collapse you’d have to think that got in the mets players phsyce. ALSO although milledge was a bit showy during the series it was not his fault. hes basically put the loss in the NLCS on lo duca and the loss to the marlins on the milledge. NOT ohhh i dont know sending up an injured lefty goin for the big hr, or oh idk GLAVINE willie is bad for this club

i saw that too, russo also called gomez 19 yrs old

(Applause) You’re right! The manger should at least know the names of his players!!! But you know what, I guess Willie doesn’t like gotay.

And Zen may I ask who you are referring on your comments.

directed to gary coleman…..

yes. if someone says to you “you have that little guy at second base” you should know who they’re referring to b/c the mets don’t have a bunch og those: castillo, anderson, easley, gotay.

some mets fans need to be unhappy. manager isn’t that important in mlb. mets just got santana. can’t the complaining wait until game 3.

willie will be fired if the mets aren’t very good this year.

i am not unhappy AS A I STATED ABOVE IMO willie is the only true weakness this team has now after acquiring Santana. If you ask me, having only a bad manager and everything else decent and up is pretty damn fine. It’s just without hearing him for a few months I forgot how truly annoying he is.

Easley’s not even on the TEAM anymore(not yelling at you, yelling at Willie)…and A-Hern did NOT have a “solid year last year”….I just cant believe he couldnt figure out it was Gotay. Either he forgot his name(BAD), or couldnt figure out who they were talking about(REALLY REALLY BAD)

Im one of those “You ca tell a lot by looking at the details” people. Im sorry. When your manager is giving an interview and the question is “Yadda yadda backup second baseman? Yadda yadda solid year?”….and you cant pull the name from your head? This scares me, and I LIKE Willie…

Easley is on the team……

You’re right…and Im a hypocritical idiot….

I forgot they resigned him….

Thank God I’m not the manager huh!….

I’m sorry I wasn’t here while this conversation was ongoing because I have a theory that I don’t see here:

I think the reason that Willie did NOT name Gotay when asked about his backup second baseman is because in his (Willie’s) mind, Gotay is NOT his backup secondbaseman.

I think he may have revealed something that he didn’t intend to, which is that he’s seen enough of Gotay and is not satisfied with him in that role and intends to use spring training to suss out who the backup will be.

I believe Willie also said something along the lines of “the kid will really have to impress” to make the team.

Just a theory.