A summer lost

I just started writing for this blog in August, but I've been writing into a local sports talk radio program all year. The Host reads my comments on a daily basis. I said way back in June that this team needed a kick in the a-s. I thought I might share a e-mail or 2 with all of you. This one is from 6/6/07 Well, once again the Mets have blown a good pitching performance by a starting pitcher. The Mets offense is so pathetic now, I doubt they will have a winning record for the month of June. It's to the point now, that their starting pitchers are going to have to throw complete game shutouts in order to get wins. It's ridiculous. Willie seems to be following Torre's style of managing. Ignore the problems, be every players best friend, and wait for someone to wave a magic wand to make everything better. Someone needs to start kicking some butts in that locker room. If the players don't preform, they should sit on the bench. When you do stupid things like getting picked off 2nd base, fine them. When they swing for the fences when a single is needed, park them. When they jog to 1st base, or stand at the plate watching hits instead of running all out, sit them. Enough is enough. Here's one from 6/7/07 I see the Mets have hired the Yankee conditioning coach and are picking up all the Yankee bad habits. Underachieving and ignoring the problems. I guess that's what happens when the Mets decide to hire a Joe Torre disciple. I wonder if Willie is finally going to start making hard decisions. The first thing that needs to happen is sending Heilman somewhere. He doesn't want to be a reliever, and all he does this year is give up homeruns. Send him somewhere via trade and get his cancerous attitude out of the locker room. When someone continually blows leads and games, and then isn't upset about it, he needs to go. The players in that locker room need to start getting on the loafers, and calling people out when they do boneheaded things. Willie certainly won't or can't bring himself to get in peoples faces. Keith Hernandez pointed out a glaring issue with this team Tuesday night. They're playing country club baseball. Tuesday night, Delgado and or David Wright should have leveled the catcher who was standing on home plate without the ball. Instead Delgado does a pirouette around him, and Wright does a needless standup slide. The Mets are just going thru the motions. They act like they're owed a World Series ring. It's time for them to start playing with some bad boy attitude, not a candy a_s attitude. Looks like I knew more than Witless Willie.