Willie and the hand jive!

Well the Mets pulled a typical asshole move and fired Willie Randolph in the middle of the night. They also dumped the pitching coach and the first base coach. What a joke! What a third rate franchise. The Mets have always been low rent and this is just another one of their patented loser moves. Willie wasn’t the problem. He is a winner and a true professional. The Mets have an over aged team with no leadership. The overemphasize on Latin players has led to a lackadaisical attitude with no repercussions for lazy play. They needed to cut Carlos Delgado to shake up the team. They needed to get some veteran leadership. They need to slap down Jose Reyes and give him an attitude adjustment. The needed to sign a sparkplug guy like Eckstein to jump start the team and get it going. They need to hire Wally Backman who is “True Met” who will kick ass and take names. Bill James the baseball writer once did a study of managers. He said the best results were when you replaced a calm low key manager with a fiery decisive leader. Or visa versa. Perfect example Billy Martin and Bob Lemon. But it works the other way too! So Wally Backman would have washed away the doldrums that the Mets are in right now. Jerry Manuel is a joke. But he is Latin and it seems that Omar Mineya is going to go down with the ship in his own way. You can’t let the Latin guy’s just blow off the fans and the media and pretend not to speak English. They have to be held accountable or the schism on the team will be even bigger. The Mets got rid of Paul LaDucca who was a leader and spoke out on this issue. They got rid of Lasting Milledge who was a fan favorite and brought some juice to the team. The Mets don’t have a clue. Losers.