I’m up to my eye balls with work (Yes , I have a real job) and I thought I had a week off from little league baseball but I found out I have to finish a game from Sunday that was stopped due to a monsoon rain storm so I’ll give you a quick and dirty post today.
Our new Warlord J-Man made a statement about dealing with Jose Reyes that has both the media and fans wondering if he’s kidding or for real:
I bet Reyes doesn’t know if J-Man is kidding either and I don’t think he wants to find out. Last night was vintage Reyes who plays his best when he’s juking and jiving like his pants are on fire. He tested J-Man early and I ‘m guessing that Manuel showed Reyes his blade in the clubhouse. So far I like that J-Man can smile and say Don’t fuck with me†without actually saying it.
This whole Tony Bernazard story has taken on a life of its own. The media hates him as we see from the numerous stories. The players seem to love him and Willie Randolph was paranoid due to him. Of course in between all this, is the truth. My take on this is Bernazard has a lot of influence on the players because, he played 10 years in the big leagues, he was a big time player in the Players Association and he’s a Latino thus he has a bond with the Latin players. He works for a guy in Jeffey Wilpon who is the ultimate jock sniffing fanboy and he has the undying admiration of Omar Minaya. Willie Randolph clashed with Bernazard and one thing I agree with Willie was having Bernazard in the locker room. You would think that the Skill Sets would have learned from the Steve Phillips undermining of Bobby Valentine that they would let this Bernazard/Randolph feud fester. Now from what I’ve been told by people who are in the know, Bernazard has a lot of clout maybe more clout than he should have. The bottom line, Bernazard had Jeffy’s ear about whacking Randolph and both Jeffey and Tony B persuaded Omar Minaya to can him and Bernazard I feel was relaying word from Carlos Delgado, Beltran and Reyes and the relievers in the bullpen who were not Willie’s Guys and felt he was killing the team so in a power struggle like that the lone ally of Randolph was Omar but after awhile Omar got worn down and fired Willie hoping that this will relive the day to day bullshit in the clubhouse.Â
So after all that we have the chain of command all in sync. Let’s see if it works.
Ollie Perez had a rough 5th after a solid first 4 innings, the 5th would have been worse if not for the Angels running themselves out of the inning and in the 6th a double play got Perez out of a jam. Give the Mets credit as they showed fight to come back and with Reyes and Wright stepping up and Damien Easley and the bullpen brining victory. That’s two series in a row the Mets have won and especially beating the Angels.Â
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This post was written by kranepool on June 19, 2008
Yeah man, I’ve got a good feeling for this new guy…warlord j-man!
As long as we don’t have to start chanting jerry-jerry (a la Springer) at the ball park!
I’m not sure if it is Jerry, but last night it just seemed like the team played without a weight on its shoulders. If that is the case, all the more reason to fault Omar for not getting this done sooner. I think the Wilpons made him say that it was his decision over and over again (he says it so much that it is so clear that it WAS NOT his decision), so that when the Wilpons can Omar’s ass, they can say thst this is their way of showing their displeasure on how it was done. Gives them another reason to justify the eventual dumping of the GM. If it were me, I’d say “You’re fired because you think it is ok to say you have a contending team, when you put an injury-prone 41-year-old in LF with no back up plan. And by the way, you’re fired also for having a 48-year-old pinch hitter on the team, and somehow thinking this was a good idea.