Hey everyone this is Josh Thomson filling in for JD. Here are tonight’s lineups:
Marlins (29-20)
- Ramirez, SS
- Hermida, RF
- Cantu, 3B
- Jacobs, !B
- Uggla, 2B
- Gonzalez, LF
- Treanor, C
- Jones, CF
- Nolasco, P (3-3, 4.62; 1-3, 10.80 in career vs. Mets)
Mets (23-25)
- Reyes, SS
- Castillo, 2B
- Wright, 3B
- Beltran, CF
- Delgado, 1B
- Schneider, C
- Evans, LF
- Chavez, RF
- Pelfrey, P (2-5, 5.00; 1-1, 4.67 in career vs. Marlins)
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The players were largely supportive of Willie, although no one we spoke to except for Beltran said specifically that he should remain the manager.
Beltran told us someone (ownership, Minaya) should speak to the team about Willie’s status. He’d like them to tell the players their manager will remain through the end of the season.
“I think they should say that,” Beltran said. “It is a distraction. The reality is people say it doesn’t effect the ballclub but it does. You come to the ballpark wondering what’s going to happen.”
Beltran likened the situation to his own back in Kansas City. He was traded from KC to Houston in 2004 and said he came to work everyday wondering if it was going to be his last in a Royals uniform. He said it was a distraction at the time.
The players seemed a bit miffed having to answer questions about Randolph’s situation. They all agreed that they have to play better.
Delgado grew testy with a reporter when asked point-blank whether he thought (key word there) Randolph should retain his job. “I think we need to play better,” he said emphatically. “This isn’t about the manager. I’m not in position to think or not think. They don’t pay me to think here. They pay me to play baseball.”
For what it’s worth, it appeared Randolph did speak to the club. Around 6 p.m., right before we were booted from the clubhouse at the customary time, Randolph rounded up players for a meeting. Another person I was working alongside suggested maybe it was a normally pre-series meeting, but we saw Randolph grab a couple players headed to other meetings. That confirmed my belief that he addressed his team.
I’ll talk to you during the game.
16 Comments
John-
I don’t get the booing either. Obviously this team is pressing, or maybe its just not as talented as we thought, atleast this year.
booing the team is stupid… this is the time they need the fans support. they are getting dragged through the mud in the media every chance they get. alswo, I am glad Delgado snapped at heyman. he is a clown
Good for Beltran and good for Delgado. No personal offense to you Delcos but the press sucks. Last year the press drooled over Torre and this year Randolph. Must be real downer for the press corp not to be reporting on a funeral in their write ups.
John,
Congratulations on the single dumbest analogy I’ve ever read by a ‘professional’ journalist. Kudos for raising the art.
Hey JD,
Next time you take a day off try getting someone to sub for you that knows the language. “Affect” is a verb, not “effect”. Can we get someone writing this blog that graduated from seventh grade, please. If you can’t even get Beltran’s quote correct, go home.
^ So you castrate someone for mispelling one word?? What a d*ck…
Good to see the Mets hitting Nolasco hard, everyone in that lineup owns him….
An error by Reyes that opens the fkloodgates to two runs followed by a lead off home run? I feel like the Berliner who at the opening of “The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahoganny” (“Alabama Drinking Son/Whisky Bar” on first Doors album) who booed and applauded simultaneously at the end.
Looks like the productive meeting was getting Reyes’s bat going.
Reyes has SMOKED both his HRs, really good swings on both.
I hate to say it because I like the guy but Mike Pelfrey is not a very good major league pitcher. Where’s the 97? He doesn’t hit his spots so he better throw 97.
John Franco’s 400th career save-a Memories of Shea highlight clip on SNY.
Ian and Dave Doyle. You both need to get laid. Lighten up. What the hell was wrong with that analogy? What analogy? Using effect instead of affect is one of the most common errors in English. Almost nobody knows the difference.
Looks like another game where mets lose by 3 runs or more and score less than 4. That would be 16 of 26 losses.
Another Met Game. Another lack of offense. Another loss. This same sad story is going to make for a very long summer for Met fans!
If the Wilpons were smart they would realize that the person who should be on the hot seat is Omar, not Willie. Omar has built a 140 million Dollar last place baseball team, way to go Omar, nice job.
Maybe tomg, Omar is on the hot seat. Since they won’t divulge the meeting’s content, it may very well be that the Wilpons said give us talent Omar or you are out of here…...