You tell me. Here is the bottom of the fifth (at this point Maine had already given up 3 runs on 6 hits and 1 walk in 4 innings): single, walk, K, single (run scored), single (run scored), HR (3 runs scored), single (and then Maine was pulled). Think that maybe when it was 4 1/3 innings, 5 runs, 9 hits, 2 walks it might have been time to pull him?
Thanks for answering my question, seriously Willie is the worst manager that i've ever seen in that situation
I am reminded the immortal words of Micheal Ray Richardson: REPORTER: What do you think is happening to the team? RICHARDSON: The ship be sinking. REPORTER: How far can it sink? RICHARDSON: Sky's the limit.
Alou injured? I'm absolutely shocked he had to leave the game. I mean, him? We all know Mr Piss On Hands never gets injured. looks bad tonight, but I'm hopeful, even with Pelfrey pitching against the hot Nationals. Hopefully Young doesn't play.
the wild card is one step closer to Willie's firing. if we complete the choke job that blows the first Mets back to back division titles and have to settle for the wild card, I think the only thing that could even remotely save Willie's job is making the WS. a loss in the wild card round would just complete the collapse, and even if we make the NLCS, if we lose it can be argued that not having the home field advantage -- something we were well on our way to getting before this collapse, cost us the NLCS, and thus Willie still has to pay for that collapse. I don't want us to lose, but as I've said, if we are going to, I hope it happens in a manner that gets Willie fired. the only thing worse than losing is losing and having to endure Willie another year.
the only positive I can take out of this is actually losing home field advantage as this team has proven this season they can't play at home anyway.... but other than that this has been a disgusting, disheartening and infuriating collapse of ridiculous magnitude......and frankly I don't think they make the playoffs at all...although this is now the second time i've said this in the past month or so.......hopefully they'll make me look stupid again
I think the Wild Card is likely to come from the West. Right now the Mets have the same number of losses as both Arizona and San Diego, so for the Mets to get the Wild Card they would have to play poorly enough for Philly to catch them (2 behind in the loss column), yet well enough to do better than Arizona or San Diego. Unless the Mets play well but the Phillies play better, chances are it's division or nothing for the NL East.
Anybody hear Willie's postgame comments last night? He says that "based on his long experience this is the way a pennant race is supposed to feel". Really? I thought last year was the way it was supposed to feel. It is amazing - he brings absolutely nothing to the table other than his "vast experience" - which of course has absolutely nothing to do with managing.
