Willie Watch – Star-Ledger: Mets Need A Leader


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

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.

>Willie Watch: Advance Says Bring Back V

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Ugh. Bobby V is the king of finishing second. Look it up. Why would we want that. However, the Willie Watch must report on what’s being suggested:

Fans have waited a year-and-a-third for this team to make a move that’s never come. 2007 was a waste. And so far 2008 is heading down the same path.

Omar Minaya… Jeff Wilpon… Fred Wilpon:

Let Willie Randolph go and bring back Bobby Valentine.

The in-your-face V is awfully high on himself, and he’s spent the last five years in baseball exile in Japan because of it. I bet he’d swim to Shea Stadium if offered the gig.

Let him return and conquer like Napoleon.

Check it out: http://blog.silive.com/mets/2008/05/memo_to_mets_bobbyv_can_save_t.html