Want to see the problem, Jeff? look in the mirror. The organization as an inferiority complex, to a point where it finds 48-year-old pinch hitters and fragile 41 year-olds to be good strategic moves. Wake up, Jeff. Your fans want more real players, like Church. Guys who want to play hurt. Guys who give a shit. Like I’ve always said, even if you don’t give a shit, if you’re taking my money, lie to me and play like you do.

Frank, I accept the job thank you very much. My first task as manager is to bring Gimp Castillo into my office. I’ll ask Gimp which of his knees hurt the most and then I will whack the other knee with a Lousiville Slugger so he can go on the DL. I might even bring Carlos Beltran in the office to witness this event and tell him “Your next”.

Mine would go like this: “Hello Willie, have a seat. As you know, last year, we should have won the division by a landslide but we did not because of the lackidasical(sp) play and pure listlessness of a team full of all-stars and you did nothing to get this team motivated to at least play up to your potential thereby causing the so called greatest collapse in modern baseball. As you also probably know, we should have fired your ass for that last year but we gave you 1 more chance. Well, we are now almost a third into the season and nothing has changed even after we got you arguably the best pitcher in the league. You have failed as our manager. Good-bye. (Wilpon yells to secretary) O.k., bring in our new manager, Steve Keane! Oh, before you go Willie, please don’t take any jobs as a motivational speaker.”

Yeah, that was corny but managers have been canned for a LOT less that what Willie has accomplished in the last 12 months. The only reason we did anything in 2006 was because the team was younger and hadn’t yet felt the dulling effects of Willie.