I hate when I get like this. It’s only two games in the beginning of the season but I’m so fucking mad about the Mets losing to the Braves. It doesn’t matter who is in those uniforms, the Braves could bring up the whole Richmond Braves team put BRAVES on their chest and the Mets would drop 2 of 3 to them as well.

I’m blaming Willie Randolph for my bad attitude and from reading the comments of yesterday’s post a lot of Mets fans are in a pissy mood as well with the skipper. How he didn’t use Endy Chavez to run for Brian Schneider is puzzling and just as the all around un-aggressive way Willie acts disturbs me. For the second time this season, which is just five games old, the Mets were screwed by bad umpiring. The one on Saturday got reversed but the umpire, Bruce Dreckman who, Willie claims told him he didn’t want to reverse his call because he didn’t know where to put the runners. At that point, that’s where Willie has to lose it and tell Dreckman what a piece of shit umpire he is, but I know that’s not Willie’s way, the same way he didn’t rant and rave when a HR was taken away from the Mets on bad umpiring in Miami. I’m not saying Willie has to be Larry Bowa who wigged out like a mental patient when told to get back in the coaches box, but it would be to see the using the old cliché, A little fire in the belly.

Again it’s early but David Wright is looking to be a little more vocal in the Mets clubhouse:

    “We need to play better,” said David Wright. “This is an early-season test, and we’ve failed so far.” 

Not earth shattering but just hearing Wright say the words we failed is encouraging as he is calling his team out. Now here is where Randolph has to think of lesson learned from St. Joseph of Torre when he was the Vicar of The Bronx and stood with Derek Jeter and backed him to the hilt. If Randolph wants to last long enough to hang pictures in the managers office at $iti Field he better align himself with the Wright Stuff.

Yesterday afternoon I’m filliping the dials and landed on MASN and the National post game show which included Ray Knight. Manny Acta was on with his post game presser, and he looked very managerial. When they went back to the studio, Knight said and I’m paraphrasing, That Acta was one of the best mangers he had seen in his years of baseball in handling the press and the post game comments. All I could think of was seeing Omar Minaya’s face listing to Knight.

So Matt Wise has a sore right forearm. Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Player has an ailment. Gets shipped to NY for MRI. MRI negative. Player takes about 5 to 8 days off. Player entered game. Player comes out of game as ailment still bothers him to where he can’t function in game. Player goes on DL not retro active from the 5 to 8 days he missed but because he entered a game from that day. The 15 day DL becomes 21 days, then 30 days the 60 days and off the 40 man roster. Ailment goes from soreness to reconstructive surgery and player is out for the year. Player comes back next spring tells all “This is the best I’ve ever felt”. Player not able yet to play in exhibition game so he plays in choose up game on minor league field. Player does great against kids and proclaims he will be “Ready when the bell rings” A week before opening day team announces everything with player is fine but he may stay back in Florida just to “gain some strength” It takes player until June to gain said strength and then precautions must be taken as to not re-injure. Season ends in disappointment but Player says this winter he will work hard to get back to where he can contribute. So there you go the history of the new millennium Mets.

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