My Rant
This team right now is in dire straits. The difference between winning teams and losing teams can be found in the enviornment in which they play, and how they respond when they are losing. That’s what this team does wrong, you look up and down the roster and there is certainly enough talent to make a fantastic team here if the game were decided soley upon natural abiltly to play the game but it’s not.
This team has no kind of bounce back when they get down in a game you can tell they get this glazed look over there eyes like here we go again and don’t even try to fight back. To me that is the difference between a winning team and a losing team. A team made up of winners take it personally when the fall behind in a game they don’t miss a beat. They get riled up if they are losing and you can see the intensity in their faces. You don’t see that with this Met’s team and it is unfortunate.
I believe that is a direct coorelation of their manager. Their leader and I’ll tell you why for a couple of reasons. One you look at those Braves teams of the late 1990′s when they won all those divison titles. Those teams took it personally if they were losing espically to the Mets of that time when the Mets first started to become a talented team. It started right with their skipper the fiery Bobby Cox who didn’t let his players feel as if they could be defeated even if they were behind in a game 15-3. This is why those games against the Braves were never over until that final out was recorded because you simply just didn’t know. Bobby also would go to war for his players, if they got screwed over he’d go fight for them so they went to war for Bobby that’s how it works.
Willie simply doesn’t do that for his players. Willie doesn’t put himself on the line for his guys and his guys simply don’t put themselves on the line for Willie. Maybe it has nothing to do with his coaching style who knows but whatever the case he doesn’t mesh with this team. So as a result he needs to go. Sorry Willie but happy trails may you be successful elsewhere because I do feel you proley are a good guy but you just don’t work here.
Right now though the team looks absoulutly pathetic and it’s sad, if they can’t turn this around a fire sale come trade deadline time might be warrented to try and stock up our heavily depelted farrm system and let’s get back to the strategey of trying to build a winner for a long time around Wright, and Reyes.
end of rant
jimmyk12
I don’t usually write in these things, and I don’t think Willie actually reads any of these, but I am so frustrated right now, I had to say something.
What is his problem? When did Willie lose his nerve? His passion? His fire? He has the energy to argue with the media, but not the energy to try and win?
Twice tonight, twice… He had runners (Wright & Beltran) on first & second, only 1-out. Twice Brian Schneider hits a hard ground out to the first baseman. Twice Willie chose not to have the runners go. Twice! With two speedy, capable base stealers on, and 1 out, why do you hold them? Why do you not “manufacture” a run? Twice Schneider’s groudout would have led to a run. Twice. Instead, the Mets get nothing and are still down 6-3, instead of 6-5.
When you’re hurting for wins… urting for runs, you find a way to score. You don’t wait for the big HR (which we don’t hit all that often anyway), you go out there and find runs… make runs… you use your strengths, not cater to your weaknesses.
When is Willie gonna get it thru his head that there is no tomorrow to turn this thing around? There is no waiting and seeing. Either you fix it now… or it don’t get fixed!!!
I hope somewhere, someone on the team can get this point, and get the whole team to start working as a whole for the good of the organization, or else we will again be the laughing-stock of the major leagues, and that, does not sit well with me!
amen to that i agree with you 100 percent