Note: Links and Buzz on Willie
Prior to yesterday’s game against the Braves, Willie Randolph did his best to backpedal from his comments in Ian O’Oconner’s column in the Bergen Record from Sunday.
For more on these statements, click here.
Yesterday afternoon, O’Conner talked with WFAN about how the interview went down, which you can here at WFAN.com.
…for what it’s worth, i heard from a few people close to willie who feel these comments were taken out of context, many of which were understood to be off the record…o’conner, however, does not feel this is the case, as noted in his interview with WFAN, who did an outstanding job with him trying to round out this discussion…nice job, joe and evan…
For more, and, oh, there is more, check out the New York Post, Newsday, and Newsday, and Newsday, and the Daily News, where Bob Raissman writes:
“Willie Randolph should spend less time fretting over the media and more time worrying about his team’s performance.”
…i could not have said it better myself, bob…nicely put…
Meanwhile, in a post to Brooklyn Met Fan, Adam wonders if these are the last days of Willie.
…i don’t know, adam, but i will say this: in the last 48 hours i have talked with a few people who are connected to the Mets, and the following words were said quite while describing willie: delusional, stubborn, paranoid, and martyr…
…also, it is pretty clear that the team’s management is quite angry with willie, who i’m told is a man who does not like to be questioned or second-guessed, which is not necessarily the best quality for a baseball manager…
…what’s worse, from what i can gather, he genuinely believes he is getting a raw deal among fans and reporters…
…case in point, on his radio show on ESPN 1050, Michael Kay, who claims to be a huge supporter of willie, recently told a story about how he talked with randolph before a game this past weekend in the Bronx, and willie accused kay of being too critical…talking to his listeners, kay said he had never seen willie that defensive, and was shocked at what he was saying, since, again, according to kay, he been his most ardent supporter…
…the way i see this, willie and management are like two trains getting very, very close to a collision…and, if the two trains do not start winning, and moving in the same direction, some one is going to get bumped from the tracks…
