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Willie Randolph, on the team’s hitting and scoring late in games, while talking to reporters after last night’s win over the Nationals:
“I think collectively we need to start swinging the bats a little bit better. Ryan Church had a big hit in the end, even though we were up by three. We need to continue to add on those extra runs at the end. So, that was a big double by Ryan to give us a little more breathing room.”
…yes, yes, yes…but, it’s not just about runs…this idea speaks to a much larger mindset that this team must get back to…
…if you think of last season as one nine-inning game, the Mets let up at the end…they were ahead early, then put it on cruise control, and then fell asleep at the wheel…that can never happen, 
not just over a 162 game season, but in a nine-inning game as well…
…i think we all agree that the Mets tend to coast…they don’t always play with a killer instinct…so many times during the last year or so, they have had a team on the ropes – or are in a position to sweep – and they fell short, by their own admission…
…this idea of keeping the pedal to the metal, pressing, pushing hard to score more runs, is not just about winning one one game…it’s about winning a pennant, as well…
Sweep the leg!
Karate Kid rocked! lol
PUT EM IN A BODYBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAG
That’s the best name I’ve seen yet.
“He ran his hand through my hair, and he’s like…. It works, It works”
I don’t own the company…All I can say is that it works! lol…
The procede commercials are hilarious. C’mon Gary Busey makes a cameo…How funny! LOL
“You don’t notice the thinning spots”
Increases Hair Shaft Diameter
Ironically he is selling the same product in his salon for $500 while anyone can buy for $20. LOL.
“I’m not putting my name on the line if it didn’t work!”
” Once daily regiment…. twice daily regiment …. who has the time for that?”
” Listen guys, stop hiding the appearance of your thinning hair, and DO SOMETHIN ABOUT IT”
Such as the guy putting on his baseball cap while two attractive ladies pass him by! LOL…
oh…listen up, I’m Guiseppe Franco. I’m not gonna sit there and look like a mook and put my name on some “gah-bage” product, capice? So do the right thing…get this product. DOn’t make me say it again.
that was teh original version of the commercial. then they told him to tone it down a bit
(ps–im 100% italian myself, and my middle name is guiseppe..so dont gimme no lip, capice??)
what is that guy in the park doing, running around with a hat in his back pocket?…… unreal
How about the 20 year old kid with a buzz cut needing proceed….
A HA HA HA! This is too much!
Who in their right mind thinks to themselves:
“Eh… I don’t know… OOOHHH Gary Busey! I’m sold!”
giuseppe has cornered the market on NY baseball advertising…. in Albany, NY the Mets and Yanks are on back-to-back channels, and giuseppe advertises on both channels during games….
I see giuseppe at least 6 or 7 times a night….. and I laugh every time
I see that damn commercial on FSN, MSG, SNY and Yes! Dude…he must’ve made a fortune with a product that virtually does not work. $$$ CHA-CHING!
It’s the only product I know of that works after using it JUST ONCE every 90 days
After viewing the commercial on youtube…I observed this statement by Franco…
“I don’t own the company…I don’t know anything about the product!”
Later in the commercial the announcer said something to the extent of…”The same product used at Franco’s salon goes for $450…this could be yours for $19.99″…or something like that.
Smells fishy…don’t you think? LOL
Yeah….. the only think he knows is that he is ripping off a bunch of rich morons in beverly hills
The picture of Arnold pushing the tire in his front window is priceless
By the way, some other You Tube searches for Guiseppe Franco turn up some… interesting… resutls. :)
I’ll have to wait until after work to check out you tube….. I’ve spent the last hour and a half of work discussing the fine points of Guiseppe Franco
man if I ever got the opportunity to meet this guy, I wouldn’t know whether to punch him in his face, or have a beer with him
K-Hern, Make sure you punch him for me, too! Damn, instead of talking Mets baseball…we are talking about his damn product…and hell…im using the name as user i.d. Talk about brand identity. LOL
HAHAHAH….. fantastic
I don’t think that’s really Gary Busey, is it? If it is, breathe through your eyelids.
NO MERCY FOR THE WEAK!!!
I liked last nights lineup - Church clearly has the “killer instinct” right now over Delgado
Great point. The very point you speak of is the responsibility of the manager, alone.
I am not a ‘Fire Willie’ advocate, but if this is a consistent thing then I will join the ranks. Front and Center.
I agree, Matt. I’ve been saying that since last May/June.
I like the graphic, by the way.
I have nothing to add to this conversation other than the fact that I love the picture displayed!
There is NO fear in this dojo!!
Finish him!!!!!
Strike first, strike hard, no mercy!
yea gotta admit last nights line up got the job done. Slappy got a few hit last night, lets hope we can build on that and win the games we are supposed to win
Get him a body bag…yeah!
I agree with the killer instinct lacking 110%!
Willie needs to tell his players sweep the leg!
I want him out of commission!
Put him in a body bag, Johnny!
Does everyone forget what happened to the guy that swept the leg? He didn’t put his opponent out of commission and he eventually got “Crane” kicked right in the face!! Make sure that once you sweep that leg you finish the job.
The guy who swept his leg got disqualified. Johnny got kicked in the face.
Go on to YouTube and search the video by “No More Kings” . The song is called, “Sweep the leg, Johnny!” It’s hillarious! And it has all the stars in the movie in it!
I think that song is in MLB 08 The Show
Oh it is my friend…it is. I was stoked when I heard it on there. I heard the song months ago and love the video, so when I found it it was on MLB 08, I was pleased…
I couldn’t believe it when I played the game, it was the first time I heard it…… I was cracking up for hours
I just saw the video to this…HILARIOUS! Also…it was great to see an overweight Mr. Belding in the video! LOL A HA HA HA..
Hey Matt…Thank you for giving us something to talk about! LOL J/K
yeah but we need Pat Morita managing to teach them the crane kick. Willie teaches them the passive trick.
well put…pats dead tho, lets call Carradine!
You know it would be sweet.. Banzai reyes son! Banzai delgado son! louder! i can’t hear you! Banzaiiiiiiiiiiiii
They may have scored 7 runs last night, but it was hardly because of a slugging lineup. The runs were scored on squibs, bleeders, and National miscues. The top of the lineup continues to look lame at the plate — and the middle of the lineup scarcely any better. Cause for concern? You bet!
thanx for the reality check Debby Downer
The Nats are a little league team.
A win is a win, but it is true. I don’t think they scored on a ball hit out of the infield. The Nats were bumbling around out there and that helped. Aside from Church’s insurance…it was basically the same ol. Thank god Johan was on the mound.
And then they could go out and hit 4 home runs tonight and score 12 runs. That’s just how baseball works. From one day to the next could be night and day.
I agree 100% with ho-go. We’ll see how good the Mets are after the 3 games with the Braves…
i think it’s time for willie to step it up and take away candy from the players like girardi did yesterday.
LMAO!!! I couldn’t believe when I heard that.
..and always remember Carlos Delgado….”Man who catch fly with chopstick accomplish anything!”
i can just see it now: red sox top yanks as jeter is benched for eating tootsie rolls.
I think this post, for the first time, sells me on the Milledge trade. Ryan Church brings some killer instinct to this team. He’s not DWright by any means, but Milledge could not be associated with any type of instinct. Granted, this is one more reason to rid our team of the overpaid bored guy daydreaming at first base (and doing nothing at the plate).
Funny you should say that about Delgado. I love when he does the fist pump after a DP. At first I thought he was showing real heart, now I am convinced he is just happy he caught the ball.
This team hasn’t “swept the leg” since 2006.
I know they have the ability to do it. It just seems that they don’t know how for clearly over a year now. They didn’t do it Sunday night in Philly with the opponent clearly on the ropes. Then they get completely roundhoused in Chicago and get carried out of town. And don’t give me the bad travel schedule crap. Philly had to travel 1000 miles further Sunday night and still scratched out a win against the NL Champs Monday evening.
OK..So..now they are about to complete a 2 game sweep of a team that has lost 90% of it’s games the past 3 weeks. Don’t start playing the Karate Kid theme music now, kids…it’s way too premature. Folks…they SHOULD win tonight’s game not b/c of a killer instinct, but b/c they are simply better.
Save the Karate Kid nostalgia when they are going for 5 in a row at home this week against a better ATL squad. That’s what ’sweeping the leg” is. Tonight is sparing with a punching bag. And if they build up tonight way too much than it deserves, then they go into this weekend flat as hell. We’ve seen this time and time again for over a year now. And frankly, I’m tired of it.
Get a winning streak together!!
Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed…
I would like to see every post accompanied by some reference to an awesome 80’s movie. (Iron Eagle, Over the Top, Cobra… just to name a few)
You just named 3 of my favorite movies….. the first 20min of Cobra may very well be the best opening to a movie ever.
I know…Marion Cobretti takes out like 250 dudes by himself. Awesome movie.
I don’t deal with psycho’s……. I put ‘em away
To quote the famous “Bull” Hurley from Over the Top, “Being number one is everything. There is no second place. Second sucks.”
You hear the Mets?????? Second sucks!!!!
when I turn my hat, it’s like a switch
(in my best Sly voice…)
You’re the disease…and I’m the cure.
to the sweep point:
how many times has willie gone into the third game of a series with the first two games in the bag and sent out a b or even c lineup?
now, i’m not a fire willie guy, because frankly i think he’s a good manager and firing him would only make sense during the off-season if, and only if, there was an extremely attractive replacement.
i’m just pointing out that when willie gets the chance to step on a team’s neck, he throws out the andersons, easleys, and clarks of the world.
now, you want to make the argument that willie is trading a better chance at a win in order to rest players so they can be a better position to win 2 of 3? i can’t really argue to vigorously against that.
I think you are right, he does that all the time.
I don’t believe in that. I would think you need to just go for the sweep, and stop worrying about players getting their rest for the long haul. Heck, when there is a laugher (down by 10 or up by 10), that’s when you can pull players out and get them their rest. But when you have a chance for the sweep, just play for that day and go for it.
But what’s the alternative? These guys have to play sometime, right? I mean if you want productive at bats from Marlon and Endy and Castro and the rest of the bench, you have to play them once in a while.
When’s the best time? When we have a three game losing streak going? On Sunday, when we’re one and one in the rubber game? To me, the only good time is when we’ve got some wins already in the bank.
Sweeps are a wonderful thing, and I’d love to see more of them.
But you’ve to to give our regulars a day off now and again to stay fresh as well as keep your bench players sharp.
You average 2 out of 3 all season long, that’s 108 wins.
I agree we need to rest our regulars and give these guys their swings. We just don’t have to play them all at the same time. when you replace a third of your line up it hurts.
great point! that’s the big issue. willie plays three subs at a time, which renders the bottom of the lineup impotent.
But just look at last year’s debacle. We could not win games that last week and if willie had not put his b and c lineups in during numerous series where we took the first two games, we would have won the division. After last year, i don’t want to hear about giving your bench guys at bats….our starters need to produce. If a guy gets hurt then put your bench guys in, or for pinch hitting or late game defensive purposes. Willie’s wimp style for the third games of series is going to cost us again this year. He needs to develop a pair of cahunes and put the hammer down on series sweeps. And please stop praising the other teams as to how good they are. Yes we know the cubs are good but we should be better and we should want to kick the good team’s butts…The mets always give credit to the other team and act like it’s ok to have gotten your butt kicked to a better team. Maybe the nats can think this way but not the highest payroll in the league…
Okay, so your solution to keeping the regulars fresh is to never give them a day off? And the bench players will stay sharp by never playing them?
You’ve got to understand, to have the bench guys produce in those late inning situation, they’ve got to play once in a while. BP just isn’t the same.
This isn’t a new idea. Baseball’s been played this way since the beginning. Just because of the way last year ended, doesn’t mean we should reinvent the wheel.
I said this before the season. the Mets need to play like the Phillies punched their mother, and the Braves knocked up their sister.
Take that extra base when up 9-1, do all those things you’re not supposed to do when up by a zillion. and win.
I think, being from Atlanta, it’s much more likely that they knocked up their own sister. :-)
yuck.
I agree with you. But I also think fans will never be happy whenever a manager (not just Willie) sits an important regular. If he gives Beltran a day off and we lose, he’s an idiot. If he plays Easley at short to rest Reyes, he’s clueless.
I still remember how much venom was directed at Bobby V or Art Howe when they would rest Piazza on Sundays.
You’ve got to try to pick your spots and it sounds a lot easier than it is. Someone’s always going to be upset.
you’re getting your metaphors a little tangled. are we thinking of last season as a nine inning game or as a long road trip?
Completely unrelated… but I was doing some surfing this morning, and at the Minneapolis Star-Tribune there are at least 4 to 5 mentions of Carlos Gomez’s struggles on their Twins homepage… including a poll asking if he should be sent down to the minors. At this point, not only did the Mets get the best pitcher in the deal in Santana - they also got the best hitter in the deal, in Santana.
By the way, they do have a fairly clever nickname for Carlos already… and that is, Gogomez. Unfortunately for them, the “go” looks like it’s currently referring to the minors, not his ability to run.