Poor Willie Randolph

[SCUDSBROTHER]

Well,one issue(poor pitching) is complicated.The other more obvious issue would be somebody like Reyes hitting .200 in September etc.The team kind of feasted off that guy getting them cheap runs.You take that away,and it can cause of problems(and one of them is pitchers getting tight.)I mean if Penny was on a decent run-scoring team,he would come pretty close to being a 20 game winner.He has a ton of pressure on him because he rarely gets early runs(and he is fat.)If ya simply look back to the playoff games last year,you will see that the Dodgers got some runs off the Mets pitching,but couldn't stop the Mets from scoring.Once you have somebody like Reyes(who is very important to this team) struggling,it is a serious problem.They had a specific way of winning games(mainly overpower them offensively,) and they didn't even come close to doing that on Friday,or Sunday(even though they got 5 walks from Willis.)Then,you have Philly doing a great job in September.As far as Randolph goes, it all depends on your philosophy about whether you think players need to be held accountable,because you only have one way to punish them(and that is to change their manager.)I'm not saying somebody else will be better,but if you want to send a message(that they f'd up,and it better not continue,) then changing managers is the only real way you can do that.Grady Little made huge tactical mistakes.He must go.I don't know the way Randolph managed.

[docicu3]

It's either a small insignificant thing or the element that defines why the team came unglued as the bell tolled game 160.....161......162.

Reyes never seemed to be answering to anybody even when his talents were clearly weaknesses because of an inability to use them at proper times.....games where his speed became liabilities because of outs run into.....acting like there isn't enough mustard in the universe to satisfy the ultimate hot dog!!

Running into 3rd outs at crucial times because he had done it successfully at other times just spit in the eye of traditional smart baseball acumen....fighting with a dead and disinterested adversary who had every reason to lie down the last weekend of the season but rose like gladiators to the cause was all precipitated by misplaced priorities. It probably is Randolph's job to reel in a guy like this but the Mets will have brighter Octobers as this is a young deeply talented team that will only get better in coming years....you fire Randolph your just missing the point of everything good about the progress made this season.