Poor Willie Randolph

[MaTH716]

I am sure that the segment of Mets fan that have never embraced Wille Randolph (because he is a former Yankee) will be calling for his head tonight. But if they take a good look at their team, they would see that it was not Willie's fault that they lost. Start with the Pitching, to say it has been horrible the last few weeks is an understatement. Besides Pedro's start last week and Maine's gem yesterday the whole staff has been bad. To get less than an inning from a future hall of famer today says it all. The bullpen coughed up all kinds of leads the last few weeks too. Since Mota has been off the juice, he has been just bad. Heilman is just too inconsistant, and Wagner tailed off in the second half of the season. When the Mets hired Rick Peterson, it was like the stole Jesus Christ from the A's and he knew how to fix every pitcher the Mets had. Where was all his magic in the end? You knew they had problems when they had guys like Humber & Lawerence making starts in big games down the stretch. As far as the offense, they did score runs. It seemed that they scored 6 every game, but too bad that they gave up 10. Alou, Wright and Castillio seemed to be the only guys that hit when it counted. Jose Reyes, was being touted as a possible MVP candidate at the all star break had a miserable second half of the season. He didn't hit, he made errors and he didn't run balls out. He also might have fired up a Marlins team that was probably looking for thier vacations to start. Instead they came to Shea today to stick it up Jose's and the Mets asses. When Jose went the Mets went with him. Carlos Beltran's numbers aren't bad but he this years Mets version of last years A-rod. Good numbers but no memorable clutch hits. Also Omar Minaya, did nothing at the deadling to sure up his pitching staff. I give Willie a lot of credit, he was stoic during the biggest collapse in history. I am sure that he deserves a bit of blame but he should not be the sacrifical lamb. Lets face it, when the Mets were playing great in the first 3/4 of the season they weren't saying "that Willie Randolph is the greatest manager in the history of the game". Omar Minaya better take a good look at the team that he thought was going to win the series. It doesn't need to be tinkered with, it needs to be overhauled. Because bottom line is that this was a total TEAM collapse.