Read: Positive Port St. Lucie
As noted yesterday, Fred Wilpon said he is 
happy that Carlos Beltran showed confidence to reporters over the weekend, adding…
“It’s a championship season. We expect to be in the playoffs - and deep into the playoffs. That’s our expectation.”
According to Mike Vaccaro in the New York Post, Wilpon feels your pain from last September, writing, “He knows what you were feeling, knows how badly you were hurting, because he understands what it is to suffer and to bleed – literally – when your baseball team is careening helplessly into the abyss.”
In Newsday, Ken Davidoff takes note of the long road for Wilpon, spanning just four seasons, from ‘Meaningful Games,” to “Deep in to October.”
Willie Randolph, in response to Wilpon’s comments, as quoted by the New York Post:
“That’s the way it should be. That’s what I want to hear…I’d rather have it that way than the other way around. That’s why we’re here. I don’t concern myself with expectations and so-called pressure. The pressure to win is always there. It’s how you handle that and how you deal with that.”
Also, in the New York Post, Burt Hubbach talks with Pedro Martinez about Wilpon’s statement, as well as Billy Wagner, who he quotes as saying:
“I think it’s fantastic. I love it. We’re a veteran team with a lot of All-Stars, so we should have the expectation of going to the World Series and winning the World Series.”
For more on Wilpon, check out the Journal News, Bergen Record and the New York Times.
