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Good question on bleacherreport.com asking who is the Mets biggest rival? Is it the last place Yankees? The 84 Cubs?
Check it out here:
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/23399-Who-is-the-New-York-Mets-Biggest-Rival
>Willie Watch – NY Post: Players "Indifferent" to Willie
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From Joel Sherman’s blog at the NY Post site. Interesting observation that there is no passion either way (love or hate) among the players for Willie.
I don’t think Willie Randolph’s players hate him. That is not the sense you get around the team. But what you sense is perhaps just as damaging. There is indifference about him. There is not a wholehearted disrespect, but critically there is not respect either. Not hate, but not love. And this is bad for Randolph. Because as I wrote in today’s Post, his job is clearly on the line. And at a moment like this, you would want your players invested in you. You would want your players at heighten concentration and effort levels.
Randolph, however, has been unable for a while now to get consistency in those areas. Maybe nobody can. Maybe there just are too many low-pulse players on this team. The problem is that the first in the firing line is not presently the man who assembled this group (Omar Minaya) or the people who pay the players (the Wilpons). It is Randolph. The fans don’t like this team and the media has picked up on that plus the uncomfortable environment that exists in the Met clubhouse. And the Wilpons are very susceptible to fan and media choruses. That is why Willie is in big trouble. And that is why if players in that clubhouse actually do like and/or respect Randolph, they better find another gear now, this weekend, the Subway Series. There might be a lot of tomorrows for the 2008 season. There are not going to be too many more as Met manager for Randolph unless the attitude and results begin to change swiftly.
http://blogs.nypost.com/sports/st/archives/2008/05/3_up_willie_cas.html#more
>Willie Watch – Star-Ledger: Mets Need A Leader
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Star-Ledger doesn’t agree about The Captain.
About this Steve Politi is right: “Somebody,” Wagner said on his weekly radio spot, “needs to stand up and say, ‘Enough is enough.'”
The fans probably should give up waiting for David Wright to take a stand, too. He had another chance yesterday to act like the captain of this team, but clearly, that’s not his personality.
http://www.nj.com/mets/index.ssf/2008/05/leader_needs_to_step_up_to_pla.html
>Willie Watch: Hopeless Mets Fans
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Among some great points:
I don’t even no what to expect this weekend. On paper we have the better chance of winning the weekend than the Yankees do. But on paper, the Mets should be blowing away the NL East too. The Yankees are as messed up as the Mets, but it’s due more to injuries than effort. The way this season is going, the Yankees will sweep the Mets and go on a winning streak to win the AL EAST. All the while Willie will be saying “it’s early in the season”, “He’s one of my guys”, “I’ll still keep using him” as he stand on the street corner trying to get a Taxi to pick him up.
>Good Link: Why Do You Hate The Yankees
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To me, I’ve always thought it was a combination of little brother syndrome and front runners. An awful lot of people bought Mets jackets in 1986, and you can out the frontrunners by their 25th anniversary patch.
Lohudblogs asks the question here:
