Who's accountable for Mets' mess?
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An Example of How to Not Run a Franchise
Published 5/27/2008 by mr. met (noreply@blogger.com) at the metropolitans
Rob Neyer checks in on the Mets. "Willie has my support. He has the support of our ownership," Minaya said. "Willie's job was never in danger going into this meeting." If not, why not? Yeah. Winning would be good. You can't read anything about the Mets these days without seeing a reference to their payroll: $138 million. And it's worse than 23-26. Over their last 162 games -- Randolph's last 162 games -- the Mets are 79-83. The Mets, with the largest payroll in the National League, have a losing record over their last season's worth of games. I know that's cherry-picking. It's not arbitrary cherry-picking; 162 games ...
Mixed Messages
Published 5/27/2008 by Matthew Artus at NJ.com: Always Amazin'
On his Insider blog for ESPN.com, Rob Neyer expresses confusion regarding why Willie Randolph still has a job (subscription required) : (L)ast year Randolph presided over one of the worst collapses in major league history. His team is losing again this year. With the exception of David Wright (who's unflappable) and Ryan Church (who wasn't around last year), nobody on the roster is doing anything extraordinary and a lot of guys are struggling. Jose Reyes, now in his sixth major league season, seems to do something silly on the bases every other game. Publicly, the players ...
