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According to eyewitnesses, Willie Randolph, Tom Nieto, Sandy Alomar, Jerry Manuel, Rick 
Peterson and Howard Johnson have all been seen at the stadium in Anaheim as the Mets prepare to face the Angels.
…you know what would stop this madness…if Omar Minaya would just come out and make a hard-and-fast statement about the future of this coaching staff…keyword being future, instead of obvious, in-the-now statements like, “We have coaches,” which is about as informative and comforting as, “We’re on Earth,” or, “I breath air.”…
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Thank goodness they weren’t staying AT a HowardJ ohnson, or this news item would be REALLY ridiculous!
On to more pressing matters…
Was Peterson spotted in The Jacket?
Funny thing, my brother is staying in the same hotel with the team.
we could hire him to give updates on the manager and coaches…. ‘don’t see peterson….oh, he was in the bathroom. now nieto’s missing! oh, he just went back to get his sunglasses’
but where is tom nieto?
matt, you are fanning the flames under the tom nieto hot seat!
hey dykstraw….
you seen slappy?
Albert Pujols isn’t impressed.
Tom Glavine is devastated
I feel like we are going to be playing “Where’s Willy?” for a while.
This is ridiculous now, isn’t it? seems like a 4th rate operation, and media coverage (hey, this thread too!) with nothing better to do.
Ownership should be embarrassed for how they leak their plans to the press and put not only coaches in lame duck situations, but put incredible media pressure on Omar, coaches, and players who have to answer the same questions.
Trust me, this leakage isn’t coming from Omar’s office. It’s coming from some rich guy close to Wilpon who enjoys their business partnership b/c they make tons of $$ and get to hear all the happenings before we do.
The Mets aren’t a laughing stock because they are an underperforming team. They are a laughing stock because they give off the sense that they have no more of a clue than the fans do of what their plan to succeed is.
This is a story concocted by the media. Ownership would never “leak” a story that the coaches are all on the hotseat. The Mets are not the laughing stock. Omar has come out in support of Willie and I am assuming the Wilpons gave him a vote of confidence in that meeting. If the team continues to play bad, then there will be changes, if they play good they won’t. THIS IS NOT A STORY FOR THE 100TH TIME. It is common sense.
I don’t think the NY Post makes it up that “Willie is Day to Day” or “The plan is to fire Peterson and Nieto for the AAA guys”
Someone who knows these plans is talking and its either from Omar’s office or Wilpons. Omar’s office has way more on the line. People own baseball teams for the thrill of it. I think it puts Omar in a position to make moves before he is completely prepared to.
I don’t buy it. It is a no lose story for the media outlets. If it happens, they look like geniuses. If it doesn’t, it was from certain “sources.” The entire world knows that Willie and the coaches are on thin ice. I don’t need the post or newsday or Heman to tell me that.
I’m sorry man, but this stuff isn’t made up. They might be making stuff up when they are “speculating”, but why was it that we got such a detailed account of “The Meeting” a few weeks ago. It wasn’t because JK Rowling was hired to create the tale.
I worked in the media. This is not made up. No news source as reputable as the New York Times would print stories like they did using an unnamed source from the NY Post. They have their own sources. On top of that, if this was a non-story, Jeff Wilpon would not dodge every question and Omar’s pressers would not be so cryptic. Imagine if the Boston media started swirling stories about Francona’s job status? It would take about 11 seconds for Henry, Lucchino and Epstein to make strong statements about how laughable, and untrue it is. Wilpon, and Omar following the lead, have kept this story alive, even if it was media created and not leaked.
Couple of things…
news source as reputable at the times? yeah their reporters have never admitted to making up stories in the recent past…
Boston? Yeah they handled the in and out and in and out of Theo Epstien tremendously well, quite professionally.
STOP. STOP. STOP.
The dumbest thing you ever say to the NY Press are the words, never and always.
I never said The Times was flawless, but it is certainly MORE reputable than the Post, which started this string of stories, and they would not run the story with the quotes they used just because the Post ran it. Trust me.
Secondly, the Theo Epstein situation had nothing to do with the example I gave. Nothing.
Both of your attempts to distinguish my reasoning for the validity of this story are irrelevant and unrelated, and I’m not sure if your point was to prove that this story is purely media created as I was trying to disprove, or if you were just being contrary so you could say stop three times in caps.
How does Yadier Molina scream like a 6 year old girl when he hits a homer off Heilman, yet he made no such scream when he got hit at the plate against the Phils………to me that is a larger story than Willie traveling to the park, imo.
You’re joking, right? He got jacked up yesterday.
If you were joking, fail. If you were serious, fail.
man, i bet the coaches are going to play so flat after that double header and 6 hour plane flight.
why are people complaining about things like “4th rate operation”. this is some really fake outrage right now.
this is an absolute disgrace. the mickey mouse way the organization has handled this entire situation is embarrassing (and even more embarrasing then the play on the field). At least on the field sometimes you can place blame on some bad breaks or physical errors. What’s your excuse here wilpons & omar? whether its stupid p.r. slogans, letting managers and coaches twist in the wind or the piss poor way they have handled ticket increases and the moving over of season ticket holders to citi, if there were standings for the front office performance, the mets would be in dead last.
boooooooring….so are we going to get updates on every move willie and the coaches make…this site has gone down the drain
actually the site is fine. the comments section is both enticing and annoying. there’s one guy who is unbearable and another who thinks he owns it. the rest are pretty much repeating the same old. there are a couple guys who are impressive and i’m wondering if they are pro’s.
the bloggers are venting like the rest of us and the news is generally bad so they are coming off negative right now. i used to read faith and fear but it turned into a hunter s novel and i really just wanted to avoid skimming all the newspaper and sports news sites and get spoonfed the news.
That Cerrone guy is the one who think he owns it, right? Some nerve.
ha ha. i thought so too and then i saw that it said Matt Cerrone’s Metsblog. He stole that idea from Wolfgang Puck like when he did Wolfgang Puck’s American Grille.
Jeez, I hope I’m not the unbearable one.
o no you’re cool. and you shout out to kiner everytime you write so….nice.
which one am i?
if tom nieto is fired, i am changing alliances to whatever team he goes to
If he gets fired, that’s a bush league move.
Who is Tom Nieto?
exactly
haha. nice update matt.
but we all know you’ve always had an axe to grind with tom nieto.
what do you mean?
matt must be relieved willie can go to his gut…for at least one more game…
David Lennon of Newsday was interviewed by Michael Kay of 1050 ESPN during today’ s show. Mr. Lennon made statements to Mr. Kay that he is traveling with team to Orange County, CA. and he has seen Willie Randolph and his coaching staff in the Lobby at Hotel except Rick Peterson and Tom Nieto. It may be the possible firings of Peterson and Nieto any moment..
or they were taking a piss
i mean, it’s news either way
UPDATE: Peterson has been spotted at the gift shop. I repeat, Peterson has been spotted at the gift shop.
was he buying a jacket?
I’ll bet it was just gum
It’s good to see the front office spent all winter studying at the “New York Knicks School for Running a Franchise Into the Ground”
Sign overpriced/overrated free agents…check
Sign unlikable players…check
Hang your coach out to dry, then alienate your fanbase by your refusal to rectify the situation…check
Botch multiple drafts…check
Suck on the field of play…check
There’s no sex scandal yet. Let’s thank God for that.
i was afraid to say it until now…
mr met exposed himself to me
Next step would be to hire a manager/coach who thinks he is smarter than everybody else and believes his own BS — is there a “Buck Showalter” in the house?
updated again!
but nieto watch 2008…continues.