Willie Randolph gets on Oliver Perez for not focusing on his job but Randolph is just as bad in his lack of focus. I’ll get to What Me Worry Willie in a minute. Back to OP The good part of the start beside he went further than the last was his velocity is fine. Fastballs in the low 90’s and he had more ground ball outs (8) than fly ball outs (7) which proves he was getting the ball down in zone. The bad besides the three home runs was his inability to hit his spot. His command was off as we saw with the Raefel Furcal home run where he was 0-2 and went with a slider that didn’t break and set up right over the heart of the plate for Furcal to go long. After that, Perez pitched well in innings 2-3-4 then in the 5th he gave up a lead off homer to Blake DeWitt then came right back to K Chad Billingsley and get Furcal to pop out. If OP was to get Pierre he would have got through 5 innings down just 3 runs. But he lost Pierre to a walk and then gave up another home run this time to Matt Kemp. So the walk really hurt and if he would have got Pierre out and kept the game at 3-0 then his start would have been a success but that walk was the killer. So with taking a line drive to the gut and bouncing back from that and his ability to be consistent with his velocity I’d say OP “Man-ed” up after giving up against the Pirates in his last start.

Look I could get all stupid with wise ass remarks about Willie Randolph and Mets manement getting all weepy over the fact that the Diamondback fans were nice an polite to their team (I guess it was lost on What Me Worry Willie that the D’Backs had the best record in the NL coming into the weekend series) and how the big bad Mets fans hurt the little feelings of his over paid prima donnas but I‘ll let up as Willie just goes out and keeps digging his own grave. If you’re going to come out and rip your fans at least be funny like Ozzie Gullien. Randolph should take heed from the words of Bobby Knight who made a statement to the effect of when you start listening to the people in the stands you end up joining them. Randolph and Skill Sets spend way too much time and effort worrying about fan reaction. For a guy who grew up in this town and played here and marched down Broadway in ticker tape parades you would think Willie would be able to grasp a feel for the fan base especially one that has purchased a record number of tickets for a team that disgraced itself last season. All this does is make the argument that Randolph is not the man for the manager’s job of the Mets. Do you think Gary Carter, Wally Backman, Mookie Wilson or any Mets player who has actually won with this organization would ever be stupid enough to blame the fans? It’s not just Willie it’s the Skill Sets and Omar as well someone in authority should come on SNY tonight and rebuke any of this the Mets play better on the road than at home because of the hard demanding fans bullshit and put it to rest. I remember the not long ago days when you could count the number of fans at Mets game in the low five figures so the advice I give to the Mets manager, GM, Owner and players is shut the fuck up and play ball.

Anyone for a Jacque Jones/Moises Alou platoon in LF?