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Pink Slip Time
It’s just about that time of year, and if Willie cannot get his boys going for him well than it’s time to see him canned. This has nothing to do with as he would like to pin it on being an African American authority figure in New York, it has to do with simply he’s just not built for the job. If you can’t get your men fired up to play and win ball games for you, well than you yourself need to be fired. As a manager you have to be a motivator and Willie certianly is not. The team as was said by the “face of the franchise” David Wright, “just seems to simply go through the motions on a nightly basis.”
That problem lies simply on the manager if he cannot get his boys going well than he needs to go. Maybe he is best serving as a bench coach as he did with the Yankees for all those years under Joe Torre, whom apparently according to some was not very fond of Willie.
You see Willie’s problem is he has no fire whatsoever. He ask’s his players to go out and play with passion and fire but yet you never see him with any. The only emotion you ever see out of Willie is the occasional fist pump or maybe three of four claps. Well Sunday while I was at the game at Yankee Stadium and the apparent home run call that was blown. Willie came out of the dugout and he should have argued that call until he was ejected from the game.
However stoic Willie went out there and gave a few stern words to the umps and than was probably told to go sit his *** back down which he promptly did. However it was Jerry Manuel the bench coach who decided enough was enough and he got kicked out of the game, maybe they need to switch roles because the team responded to that. Proceeding to make the game a laugher….
Maybe he’s not the only problem but Art Howe certainly wasn’t good here so why would Willie who seems to have just as much emotion as Art Howe be any better?
Bumming
Yesterday was supposed to be the day to celebrate my birthday which means it was supposed to be a day that the New York Mets got a huge win from their divisonal foes the Atlanta Braves. Well this did not exactly happen, the Mets needing a win from ace Johan Santana lost 4-2 not coming up with the effort needed in order to win the game. Ron Darling said it after the game, what I had talked about yesterday that in the 7th inning it became apparent that the Mets where not going to score any more runs, Johan needed to find a way to keep this game 2-1 and get the victory. Thats what ace’s do they win those games and it was unfortunate to see him give up the big inning in the 7th that would lead to the Mets demise. All is not well in happy valley right now, David Wright called out some of his teammates the other night implying that losing does not seem to affect them the way it should, and that it dissapoints him. The Mets really need to get their act together or Willie won’t be joking about having his head on the chopping block. Although he’ll proley turn that into a racial thing, as he said before the criticisim of him has to do with his race, as he talked about what happend to Herm, and Isiah Thomas…….
Little word to the wise Willie, first and foremost Joe Torre caucasian had it alot worse than you do so quit your crying, Tom Coughlin had been written off and said that he could not coach a pee wee football team until he won a Superbowl, Eric Mangini is on the hot seat and Mike D’Antoini has recieved criticism and he hasn’t even coached a game here yet. Get used to it Willie you’ve played and coached in New York you have the 3rd highest payroll in baseball you’re not performing that’s why your job is in jeporardy not because of the color of your skin, and I hope you realize that if you do get canned but, we’ll hope for all of our sakes that you and the club will turn it around..
end of rant.
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