Uh Oh I think I stared something here. First I’m reading Adam Rubin story in the Daily News today where he mentions that Rick Peterson is on a very shaky ground with Mets management:
{With a 14-12 record, the Mets aren’t really in dire straits, despite Wednesday’s three-error monstrosity. But with a nearly $140 million investment, and with talk-radio chatter already fomenting about whether Randolph and Minaya ought to lose their jobs, it’s worth wondering whether the first casualty may actually be pitching coach Rick Peterson if the team’s underachieving ways continue.
Hitting coach Rick Down lost his job at the All-Star break last season, when he was replaced on the staff by Rickey Henderson. And there was high-level disenchantment with Peterson at the end of 2007, enough so that his job status was briefly murkier than Randolph’s. With Oliver Perez’s five-walk, 1-2/3-inning performance against Pittsburgh and Mike Pelfrey yet to blossom, and with Cardinals pitching coach Dave Duncan getting so much out of an unheralded staff in St. Louis, Peterson’s resume doesn’t look so gleaming anymore.
Consider also that there are four credible alternatives already in the organization: Triple-A pitching coach Dan Warthen, who returned to the Mets after serving as bullpen coach on Grady Little’s Dodgers staff; Double-A Binghamton pitching coach and rising star Ricky Bones; minor-league pitching coordinator Rick Waits; and rehab coordinator Randy Niemann.}

As I said last week it may be time to get a new voice for the pitching staff to listen to. Looks like a change will happen soon as you see Rubin already has names under discussion by the Mets. This is no blind item this info had to be given to Rubin. I still like my choice of Bobby Ojeda who coached in the organization and more importantly has won as a Mets pitcher and is the complete opposite of Peterson in personality and pitching approach.
Now Tim Marchaman takes it a step further and writes that it’s time to dump Willie in a scathing indictment on Randolph’s ability to lead:
{That they haven’t expressed that talent in its fullness is in the end the fault of the players, not the jeering Queens fans, drive time hosts, bloggers, or even the manager. The manager, though, is the one whose sole job is to ensure that the team that physically takes the field is as good as the team that’s on the lineup card. In this, Randolph has failed in concrete ways, and shows no prospect of or capacity for improvement. Every day the Wilpon family and Omar Minaya keep him in his job is a day they do a bit more to show themselves as unfit for their jobs as Randolph has proved for his.}

Thanks to Rubin and Marchman for making my job a little easier.

Brian Schneider is still hurting from the staph infection in his thumb but for whatever reason the Mets still refuse to put him on the15 day DL even though he has not played in eight day so the most he would miss is the D’Backs series and the Dodger series. So far Raul Casanova and Gustavo Molina have done a nice job filling so just why hasn’t Omar put Schneider on the DL? The wheels are really starting to fall of here in what looks like a crash and burn of the Minaya era.