Comments on: Opinion: I want Willie to Stay

By: gipper82475

gipper82475 — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:36:49 +0000

It is incomprehensible that heads have not rolled yet at Shea. At this point, I am beyond caring whose head(s)…just restore some sort of accountability into this organization!!! Personally, I’d satrt with Willie and Bernazard and put Omar on notice. But, my God, just do SOMETING to turn the page!

By: mistermet

mistermet — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 08:17:01 +0000

The Wilpons are very slow to react, always have been- do the Mets need to be 12-13 games out for a change to be made? Would that do it? In that case, the season would be over. I really think there is hesitancy to fire Randolph mostly because he is the first bl*ck manager in New York history- and the Wilpons are concerned about the negative PR from that. That’s the problem with them, and has been for 2 decades- they care more about PR than winning. Again- ridiculous post Matt. Are you an adopted son of Willie’s?

By: mistermet

mistermet — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 08:12:49 +0000

When your team underachieves horrifically, you get fired- the head honcho takes the fall. Flip Saunders went to back to back Eastern Finals with the Pistons and he got canned. Ron Wilson won the President’s trophy and got terminated by San Jose. Grady Little blew a 3-4 game lead with ~15 games remaining and he got fired. It happens- in sports, you are hired to eventually get fired- these are very wealthy men,and Willie won’t go hungry, I assure you.

By: mistermet

mistermet — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 08:09:34 +0000

What a joke of a post- so if it’s not Willie’s fault and it’s not Willie’s fault that Delgado can’t hit an inside fastball and it’s not Willie’s fault that Wright is swinging at bad balls- fact is, you look at the body of work, and it has been BAD this year- all of this coming off of a historic COLLAPSE last year. So if it’s the players fault and we can’t blame Willie for the underachieving and bad baseball, etc.- well, if that’s the case, why should any coach/manager ever be fired?

By: chew13

chew13 — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 04:58:57 +0000

P.S. I need to also add. I don’t want anybody else but Omar Minaya as my GM. I’ve been a met fan for decades and while I dont love every move (Bell,Bannister, Flores) the good ones (some even great) outweigh the bad. The man got the “best pitcher in baseball” a 2 time cy young winning lefty, in the prime of his career. That doesnt happen!! Even bette,r he beat out the two biggest powers in all of baseball for him (Yanks and Sox). Milledge for Church! I hated HATED that move @ the time. Ryan Church is now one of the most exciting players on this team and a far better player than lastings milledge. Schneider as far as I’m concerned is now a throw-in. Maine, Perez, Pedro, Beltran, Wagner, Sanchez, Pelfrey (who I believe in).( I bet you this year’s draft class turns out to give us a couple of players.) Even now , he makes a move to address the “perceived problems” on this team by getting Trot Nixon for nothing. Omar is not the problem.

By: chew13

chew13 — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 04:42:19 +0000

I just have mixed feelings about letting go of your manager this late in the season.

By: chew13

chew13 — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 04:41:01 +0000

Matt, I disagree. I like Willie.I was all for him the last three years. but it’s time for him to go.

By: njmatt

njmatt — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 04:09:32 +0000

here is the problem with the team, right here, to quote from a previous post:

the Daily News, Adam Rubin quotes an anonymous player as saying, “It’s time for a change. Unfortunately, but it’s time.”

WOW, Willie has a bunch of rats playing behind him it sounds like. My money is on that being a Delgado quote. Whoever said that to Rubin is a d-bag. If you are going to say something like that, be a man and give your name. Or say it to the manager’s face. Unreal.

By: NY Cuban

NY Cuban — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 03:31:06 +0000

Willie needs to go…and the sooner the better. Is he the only problem on the Mets? No. Of course not, but he is step 1. The sooner we move on the better. Matt, you claim that you had played before but your rationale for keeping Willie is soft coming from a former player. You basically say a manager has very little input on what happens on a field…and I couldn’t disagree more. A manager motivates, they also put players in a postion to succeed, they snap teams out of slumps, he basically knows what buttons to push when. When has Willie done these things? I have a whole book on why needs to go…

PS. Omar’s firing will be the sequel. He needs to go now as well, you know wha’ I’m saying!

By: JohnGreatOneNJ

JohnGreatOneNJ — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 03:16:53 +0000

Uh Gina, Epstein has laid off the big free agent signings?

He traded for and signed Crisp to a huge, bad deal. He gave Drew 70 mill, Lugo 36, Clement, and let’s not forget, tried to trade for A-Rod and CUT Manny. If the P.A. didn’t step in to stop that deal, they never win even ONE W.S.

I agree, Omar’s been FAR from perfect. And while totally frustrated w/ the state of this team, let’s not forget when Omar took over, where we were. A lot of us are starting to act like Yankee fans, where we’re supposed to win. We are no where NEAR the worst team in the league.

A lot of the moves GM’s make turn out to be lucky or terrible, and it’s a crap-shoot. If the Mets don’t sweep the awful Rangers, fire Willie and Peterson, and let’s see what this team is made of. If that doesn’t wake them up, nothing really will, and when the offseason arrives, save for Reyes, Wright, Beltran, Maine, Johan, Church, and maybe Pelf, you blow this whole travesty up. However, unlike most recent Met “blowups” of their teams, the above named players set for a pretty good core that will mostly all be at or near their primes when the replacements evolve into “hopefully” good players.

Let’s Go Mets

P.S.
sorry for the book