Judgement Day Awaits Willie

The Mets are headed back home with things having gotten a whole lot worse since they left back on the 15th (remember the 1-0 loss?).  A dreadful 3-6 road trip, which started out 2-0, ended dropping two out of three to the Colorado Rockies, who hold the second worst record in the league, and practically fielded a Triple-A lineup this afternoon.  The Mets will take the field tomorrow night at Shea Stadium at 23-25.  But more importantly, the Mets may take the field without Willie Randolph, as a morning meeting with the Wilpons awaits him.

The week started with his comments, while maybe a little stupid, not really an issue in my mind (which is why I haven't commented on it).  The team in no way helped out their manager after that, dropping four disgusting games to the Braves and then playing a pathetic series against the Rockies.

Thankfully the Mets pulled out a win on Saturday, because this series was as ugly as the Braves.  Friday's 13-inning loss had a lot of sting to it.  I don't blame Billy Wagner, he was gonna give one up eventually, it was just bad timing.  But man, this team had so many opportunities that night and took advantage of none.  And then today was basically the script I've seen too many times, which is John Maine's doing fine and the moment he gets the grounder he needs for a double play, it gets right by the one and only Jose Reyes.  Unbelievable.

I don't wanna say what will happen.  It's a hell of a thing to predict a manager's firing on Memorial Day.  But if it happens, I won't be surprised.  I'm not saying it's the right or wrong move, but I won't be surprised if this is the case come around 3 PM tomorrow.

I really think Willie has shown to be a good manager, I just feel that everything is falling around him.  He may pay the price, and it'll be a shame.  Now some may say I'm crazy for thinking he's done good things here, but he really has.  Think back to 2006, when Pedro, El Duque and Cliff Floyd all went down with injuries and then Steve Trachsel was unprepared for the postseason.  Willie still made things work, and give him a ton of credit for rolling the dice with Maine and Ollie and finding away to make this team stay upbeat at that time.  But now it's like he's lost everyone but Wright and Wagner, and I'll include Ryan Church and Brian Schneider, but they've only been here seven weeks.  It's troubling as a fan to watch a team with so much talent just practically give up.

I don't know what tomorrow holds.  I hope Willie doesn't get fired, but I also hope the front office finds away to fix this.  Something has to be done, because obviously things cannot continue the way they are.

I wish I could elaborate more, but after this road trip I am mentally shot as a Mets fan.  Tomorrow morning I'll have some good things, especially after everything will Willie and the Wilpons goes down.

Happy Memorial Day.