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Following the Mets 1 to 0 loss to the Nationals today, reporters attempted to interview Billy Wagner, but were unsuccessful.
Wagner, on the offense and pitching, said:
“Hits, we’re not getting consistently. Pitching, today, Pelfrey pitched a fantastic game. We had our chances, we didn’t get that hit. The other day, we’re coming back and we don’t get that hit and we don’t make the pitches. It’s a culmination of
just not getting it done. We’re not earning our money.”
According to eye-witnesses, Wagner directed his final comments in the general direction of Carlos Delgado’s locker, saying:
“Can somebody tell me why the (bleep) the closer being interviewed and I didn’t even play, while they’re over there not getting interviewed? I get it, they’re gone. (Bleeping) shocker.”
To watch a clip of Wagner’s statements, courtesy of SNY, click the play button below:
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Can we get a post game recap first. Sheesh!
Is a post game recap really necessary? Just go back in the archives over the past year and I’m sure there is a recap similar to the one that can be used today. Great outing by Pelfrey. Abysmal performance by the entire offense. Brutal and excrutiating loss. If you feel the need to rehash the game, I am sure it’ll be replayed on SNY this evening.
The point I was making is put the recap of the game before you start talking about Wagners comments that pertained to the game. It’s ok dude i understand I’m frustrated too. We all are.
Fair enough. Understand your point as well. Hopefully, we can have a great series this weekend to help get over this past series.
I know it’s completely off the topic but can someone tell me why Wagner is wearing a Patriots hat? I mean the man can wear anything he wants, but of all teams a freakin Patriots hat!!!!
why? to fulfill some sort of self-loathing, woe is me, Mets fan mentality? why do you need a post game recap? you saw the team lose, it wasn’t pretty, they lost, what can a bunch of bloggers on a site say about it that you don’t already know?
maybe he had to work and couldn’t follow the game….. either way THIS TEAM SUCKS, there’s the recap
Right I saw the game… but most people (especially since it was a day game) did not. One of the reasons I started coming here regualry because the site was constantly updated.
I was gonna write my own postgame recap but what’s the point…..Anyway it’ll probably go something like this:
The Mets (20–19) lost to the Nationals (18–24) by the score of 1 to 0 in Shea Stadium this afternoon being shut down for the first time this season..
For a recap and boxscore, go to SNY.
Mike Pelfrey…..blah blah blah no hitter blah blah blah.
Willie Randolph blah blah blah booed blah blah
Lifeless, Gutless, etc, etc…
Wagner is spot on again - the mental errors and fundamentals mistakes, should have been addressed by the players themselves.
This team looks pathetic, uninspired, and dying.
A Least Wagner has some heart and balls…
“Wagner is spot on again - the mental errors and fundamentals mistakes, should have been addressed by the players themselves.
This team looks pathetic, uninspired, and dying.
A Least Wagner has some heart and balls…”
Agree, 100%. But I keep saying over and over again, it all stems from the manager, period. This team will never, I repeat, NEVER reach that next level with Willie. Mr. Delgado has to go, period. What we’re painfully seeing 39 games into this season is just a continuation of last season………….. a 500 ball club at best, period. There will be some drastic changes come July.
TO ALL WHO KEEP SAYING, AND TRY TO MAKE EXCUSES FOR WILLIE RANDOLPH NOT TO GET FIRE, KEEP MAKING THE SAME ARGUMENT. THAT THIS TEAM PRIOR TO 05′ WAS BELOW A .500 TEAM. WHICH IN THIS CASE THEY ARE RIGHT. THEREFORE MAKING A CLAIM THAT WILLIE WAS BEHIND THE TEAMS SUCCESS.
BUT LITTLE DID THEY ADRESS THE FACT THAT ACQUIRING PEDRO MARTINEZ AND CARLOS BELTRAN MADE THIS TEAM A .500 TEAM OR EVEN BETTER.
WILLIE HAS LOST CONTROL OF THE TEAM. THERE IS NO VOICE IN THIS CLUB HOUSE. NO ONE SEEMS TO BE LISTENING TO HIM. THERE IS DEFINITELY A PROBLEM. MINAYA DO SOMETHING QUICK BEFORE IS TOO LATE….
what’s that button there next to the “a”?
Well played, mOOkie. Well played.
Where is Cliff Floyd?
he’s busy playing in 7 games and getting 28 AB on the season. i’m SURE he’d put us over the top.
/rolls eyes
The gutless Carloses are not stepping up and answering the tough questions? Why does this not surprise me?
I don’t care who answers questions. I care who gets on base.
Billy Wagner is showing the frustration us “fans” are currently living with. So much criticism was thrown towards the fans for being too short tempered, not enough patience. NOW I see the so called “analysts” jumping on the bandwagon the fans have been riding since last year. It takes no genius to realize this team was in trouble from the beginning (really from last year) We have spent the last 15 years worrying about the Braves. Now that the Braves struggle, we can’t do anything! Just plain pathetic performance by the offense, sloppy base running, and just plain bad attitudes. Willie must go, and send some of the coaches packing with him as well.
What happens when the new guy comes in and they continue to struggle?
Fire him, too. That’s apparently what the fans want. Just keep firing managers no matter how idiotic the reasoning behind it.
Everyone who says “Oh, what will firing Willie Randolph do to help the situation?” must not be seeing the same Mets. I’d have never hired him to begin with, but the bottom line is this: Yes, he helped change the culture and did a decent job in 2005 and 2006, we are all very thankful, but he single-handedly has blown a bunch of games every year he’s been here. He can’t manage a bullpen, he is stubborn, and there is no chance he’ll win a pennant here in 2008 or beyond. It’s over. No, it’s not his fault that Aaron Heilman is the new Mitch Williams/Jose Mesa/Brad Lidge. No, it’s not his fault that the Mets offense and in fact, the entire organization, is widely inconsistent. Yes, he has to pitch Heilman because he only has so many guys, but he can pick and choose his spots and be a lot smarter about it. The truth is his team does not perform to the level they are supposed to, the exhibit absolute calm and no passion just like their manager. It’s time to change the culture, it’s time to shock the players and make them think. This team is lackluster and it may or may not be Willie Randolph’s fault, but he has got to go! It’s time! Managers get fired all the time and sometimes a mid-season change can spark something. Bob Lemon took over for Billy Martin in 1978 and the Yankees won the World Series and so did the 2003 Marlins after Jack McKeon replaced Jeff Torborg. It can happen!
Fire Willie!
For Pete’s Sake, the guy blew a 7-game lead with 17 games to go! Since when do Mets fans except mediocrity? It’s wrong!
Right on. 7-game lead with 17 to play. You don’t need to know more than that. This team can never, EVER move forward and get past that historic, all-time collaspe with the same manager at the helm.
Willie must go, it’s really that simple.
Omar should be gone too. He assembled this team.
I BET YOU WHERE SAYING THE SAME THING WHEN THE METS SIGN SANTANA, “ROGASM”.
IF AT THE BEST MINAYA HAS ASSEMBLE ON PAPER A .600 TEAM.
IT IS WILLIE AND THE PLAYERS WHO ARE TO BLAME..
HEY ROGASM, I BET YOU ALSO COMPLAINED ABOUT THE MILLEDGE TRADE. DONT YOU???
DUDE I UNDERSTAND THAT THIS TEAM HAS NOT PLAYED TO POTENTIAL, DONT GO BLAME THE PERSON WHO HAS TRIED EVERYTHING TO ASEMBLE A PLAYOFF TEAM. HOW ABOUT PAGAN PICK UP?
YES HE DID BAD SIGING CASTILLO TO A 4YR DEAL. WHICH IS BY FAR HIS WORST DECISION YET. OVERALL MINAYA CAN KEEP HIS JOB IN MY BOOK….
fivepoints, those are all excellent points.
the problem is the manager not the GM.
but do us all a favor fivepoints, please don’t post in all caps, it’s rude. really rude.
i mean unless you have something you need to shout like ….
FI-RE WIL-LIE!!
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I don’t really get it. why are so many met fans loyal to willie? he’s a yankee, and was not even a great one at that.
he hasn’t done anything for the mets. its not like he came in and turned the organization around, that was handled by, Jose Reyes, David Wright, Pedro Martinez and Carlos Beltran.
Ooooohhh Willie told everyone no facial hair in 2005. ooooohhhh master stroke there.
how about not going to Mota ad infinitum in 2006
how about telling cliff to lay one down in 2006
how about reminding the young and excitable Jose that you can’t attempt to steal 3rd with two outs in 2007
how about benching someone other than Jose Reyes (delgado) for not running hard to first. What, was Delgado’s massive .225 BA weighing him down running to first?
Willie, you sir, stink. Please do us a favor and go on another 11 managerial interviews and leave us alone.
If you know your guys so well, you should know that they have tuned you out since last June.
Do the honorable thing
QUIT!!!!
We need to deal with the problem at hand…. and that problem is not going away. The Marlins are 8-1 against the Nationals. Willie has lost this team.
Yes he has. Willie has lost this team, that was plain to see last year towards the end and this year is no different. There is a natural resistance to making a “knee Jerk” reaction when it comes to firing a manger this early in the season, I understand that. What’s also saving Willie is that they are only 2 or three games out of first place and no one is running away with the National league East. But the writing is already on the wall folks, if this continues, Willie will be thrown to the wolves, trust me. There is no other choice. Unfortunately, it’s going to take at least another month of bad baseball to finally end the ‘Willie Era” and move on. I just hope we’re not too burried to salvage the season.
YOU GO WAGS !!!! The debacle of 2007 was never really addressed by the team and by keeping Willie and the the coaching staff the same a message was sent that its business as usual. Well its time to change the message, FIRE WILLIE !!! Let the team know the honeymoon is over. The only way to change the direction of the team is to make a change, Fire Willie and the whole coaching staff. After the Yanks take 2 -3 from us we will be 4-6 on this 10 game set, that is NOT acceptable.
The Braves are licking their chops to play the Mets. The Mets will make the Yankees look like the Bronx Bombers of old. Willie has lost this team. 2007 all over again. If it’s so obvious to all of us and every Mets fan, why isn’t it so obvious to the team owners? Willie must go, period.
Losing is one thing. Acting like losers is another.
And I think that is at the heart of Billy’s argument.
Exactly. Billy sees what all of us are seeing. A team that has no life and plays with no urgency.