An Open Letter To Willie Randolph
I'm going to start this out with three words that I think some Met fans are probably hesitant to say, but I'm not.
You gotta go.
With yesterday's inexcusable performance, on top of last year's NLCS that
was hands down one of the luckiest postseason wins I've ever seen by an overmatched, undermanned team (proved positive when the Cards could not get around the Brew Crew who were powered by the Son of Cecil and the Cubs who had Sweet Lou pushing the charge *why couldn't Lou be OUR manager*) that ended up winning it all last season...I'm convinced you aren't it. Yes, there were a ton of problems that plagued this bound for Heimlichville team from a bullpen that couldn't protect a lead if it were a corpse and they were a pack of maggots charged with staying on top to an offense that seemingly forgot how to hit the ball or run bases properly. I won't really get into the statistical breakdown here, because at this stage I'm beyond looking at petty numbers because there's only one that matters.
88-74, no playoffs. You played most of your career as a Yankee, you know how this goes in New York. Fuck, I'm a natural born Jerseyan and even I know that failure isn't something people tolerate. Bobby Valentine
got canned after getting the Mets to a place they should've been a year ago and didn't because you let yourself get outmanaged by Tony LaRussa.
This year, you got outmanaged by of all people, Charlie Manuel, whoever they've got running the Nationals (can't they contract this fucking team) and the Marlins in the final 17 games of the season almost all at once. The bar has been raised and while New York will remain Yankeetown USA as long as there are pinstripes in the Boogie Down, this is the single lowest point in Mets history. I looked forward to the Mets making it to the Show and allowing me the opportunity to root my team on to victory and to only its second World Series championship since I've been alive. I barely remember the 1986 one, because at the time I didn't give a fuck less about baseball. Still, it's obviously clear to me and most Mets fans you aren't up for this job. You didn't make the necessary changes to the bullpen when you saw they were CLEARLY TAKING ON FUCKING WATER and yesterday, with Glavine seemingly playing the role of Roberto Duran in the Leonard/Duran 'No Mas' epic...why didn't you throw Pedro out there to stop the bleeding? Why did it take you SEVEN FUCKING RUNS TO GET GLAVINE OUT OF DODGE?! If you lost, you stayed at home. The average manager would've yanked him after 3, no more than 4. The fact that you left Glavine in to get jacked for 7 shows me, you either had a bad day (seemed to be a lot of those over the past few weeks) or simply put, you're not as good as previously thought. Either way, you've gotta go. Oh and while you're at it, you can take ole Glavine with you. Fucking choke.
So now, where do we go from here? Hopefully the Yanks tank again and the Yanks can Torre. I'd love to see him end his career getting the Mets back to The Show and hell, winning one would be great. Hell, can we put in a call to Bobby V and get him back here? I mean, I can pick a name out of a hat, put them in the same predicament and I'm willing to bet you good money that lead's not blown let alone in the colossal fashion you let it be blown in. Now I get that you didn't make a single fielding error, not swing a bat or throw a gopher ball...but it was in your hands to get people out there who wouldn't throw gopher balls and call them pitches or to start pressing buttons on people to get them playing better.
(Oh and thanks John Maine for pitching like you had a pair, leading to me benching you for fear that you were going to do what Glavine did yesterday justifying me benching him in my championship game.) Still, I can't fathom any reason imaginable to justify you coming back as the Mets' skipper next season. I'm going to not watch a single game of the postseason this year, because simply put, I don't care. Unless there's yet another Paper Tigers team amongst the four AL teams (my candidate
this season's the Tribe...just cause they're Cleveland), the World Series champion will come out of the AL. No NL team has a rotation/middle relief/closer trio that I can or will look at and say "these guys will win it all".
But again, I thank you for making the Mets a part of a section of history no team should want a piece of. Thank you for putting them next to the 1964 Phils, the 1995 Angels and various others as being teams that blew first place leads in the final month of the season. Ya know, at this point,
I'd even be willing to give Joe Girardi a shot since Omar's going all ex-Yanks and shit. He wouldn't have blown this lead.
Sincerely,
Len Corleone
President of the Fire Willie Coalition
Posted 10/01/07 by Len | Filed under: An Open Letter To...
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