This pissed me off. First off, I do not think for one second that Willie is the problem. Is it his fault that Heilman and Wagner have both had several really bad games? Is it his fault players get injured? Or simply don’t play well? Yes, he is supposed to manage and motivate but there is only so much a single person can do. But we can argue this back and forth for eternity as to what is and isn’t the coaches fault.

What we can’t argue about is the totally classless, spineless, rude, and inappropriate way they went about it. Firing a manager via a press release and e-mail at 3:15am ET is simply unacceptable. You don’t even break up with a high school girlfriend like that. If you want to fire the guy in in a damn plane, fly to LA, and do it in person. The ownership of the Mets just lost any creditability they had with me. This is almost enough to make me a Yankee fan…. well. Not quite, but still, you get the picture.

Shame on the Wilpons and Minaya. Why don’t they fire the GM, after all he is the one responsible for putting together the overpriced- underachieving team?

it was painful this weekend, very painful, to watch the mets slip into oblivion. though perhaps it was for the best, because a first round playoff exit may have been even more painful.

Sometimes it is tough to be a NY sports fan. The Mets have lost 4 straight games, the last two by simply playing like the Bad News Bears. The Giants and the Jets have started the season 0-2. And the Yankees are in 2nd place, which to me is a good thing. Oh, and I lost the first week in the GruntvillE Fantasy Football league, but since we only ended up with 4 players, we have all secured playoff berths already!

Anyone who know me knows that I am  NY Mets fan, and it is a good time to be a Mets fan being that they are 16 games over .500 and in first place. And I know exactly who is responsible for, Willie Randolph, the Manager. It seems that no matter what comes at them, the Mets still manage to win. No Pedro, no problem. Beltran out for a while, Delgado injured, Lo Duca out, I mean they have had injuries at just about every position. Yet Randolph keeps figuring out how to move players around to win. It is quite impressive if you ask me.

What isn’t impressive is that it took so long for a team to give Willie a chance at being a manager. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I am happy nobody else snapped him up so that he ended up with the Mets. But it is travesty that it took so long.

One of the amazing things about having an infant is the amount of time you get to watch TV.

Seriously. Here is what I mean. I get to dothe final feeding of the day for Marissa, at about 10pm each night I give her a bottle. Then I get her to fall asleep and put her to bed. This whole process takes anywhere from 60-90 minutes and there is not much to do other than watch TV. So I have taken to watching one of three things normally, the NY Mets, Discovery HD Theater, and The National Geographic Channel in HD. Yeah, sometimes I watch something else, but it is usually one of those three.

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