Comments on: News: ESPN on Willie and Bernazard

By: KevnCt

KevnCt — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:31:16 +0000

I heard it was Randy Neimann.

By: Gina

Gina — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:54:04 +0000

I don’t think people disagree with firing him but they disagree with the way it was handled. Not just the firing him on a road trip but the weeks worth of leaked reports before hand and the awkward press conferences. It just seems horribly befuddled and I would expect a professional organization to be able to handle something like this much better. If there’s so much confusion in the front office that they can’t handle something as simple and common as firing a manager how can we expect them to run the rest of the franchise.

By: huge_mets_fan11

huge_mets_fan11 — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:53:22 +0000

I agree that the Mets handed this in a embarrassing and classless way. But it is no surprise to me that the first person to rip the Mets is Buster Olney (a huge Yankee fan himself) . Any chance he gets he will rip on the Mets and it annoys me that he has to make it even worse then already is.

By: petercast41

petercast41 — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:49:55 +0000

Why is Tony Bernazard still around!!! If it takes getting rid of Omar to solve this problem, then I say let’s just do it.

By: mavicario

mavicario — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:34:29 +0000

I guarentee if the firing was done after a loss, the poll would be completely opposite.

Willie has never been a good manager. He is a good guy and I’m sure can be valuable to any organization, but he had to go.

What was the confidence rating in him 2 weeks ago? 1?

Now the Mets won 2 games and all of a sudden everyone loves Willie. Baseball has it’s ups and downs. This team has proven over the past year that their downs are gonna be slightly worse than their ups.

A change was needed. I don’t applaud it, but I am happy someone did something.

By: Gina

Gina — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:32:40 +0000

In one of the earlier posts there was a comment that said Bill Madden was on Mike and Mike saying that Tony B and Jeff Wilpon have become friends and he’s now Jeff’s go to guy and there’s a power struggle between him and Omar in the front office.

Basically if you believe the reports our front office has turned into something straight out of a soap opera.

By: GravediggerHebner

GravediggerHebner — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:26:01 +0000

Recently he was shown on TV sitting next to Omar at some games during “Willie Watch”, and he sometimes appears on the SNY pregame show discussing the minor league players, but not often.

By: Horseman

Horseman — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:24:10 +0000

I was one of those fans that wanted Willie gone. But, over the course of a couple of weeks, my opinion changed. I wanted Omar gone as well as that Tony B. Seriously, a lot of people have mentioned Tony B’s name as a problem. Why is he still here? Get rid of that jack@ss.

By: Gina

Gina — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:22:29 +0000

If it is Oberkfell why not just make him the manager now rather than hiring him as a coach and making Manuel the interim manager?

By: OPP is Metsmerizing

OPP is Metsmerizing — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:21:51 +0000

Funny, correct me if I’m wrong metsblog, but I still haven’t seen a picture of Tony Benazard or him on camera.