Friday, April 17, 2009

BOOING WILLIE.

I started a post where I was asking people to not boo Willie tonight. But I’m recovering from a migraine, and I’m cranky, and I thought about my criteria about under what circumstances it is acceptable to boo former Mets associates (like I said, *my* criteria, not asking you to comply with it) and I just can’t put Willie in the same class as Armando Benitez or Braden Looper or even Heath Bell (I agree with Gary, Keith and Ron: shut up, stop talking about the Mets, you’re making yourself look bad).

I don’t think Willie Randolph should be booed. Yes, we all had a problem with him. That is why he is no longer managing the Mets. He tried, he did his best, it just didn’t work out. It’s not like he didn’t take his job seriously or give it his all, he just wasn’t very good at it. He was a good guy, y’know, he wasn’t a jerk or an asshole. He just wasn’t a good manager.

So what would you do? Am I giving him too much credit? Am I forgetting some horrible thing he said after he was fired? I mean, we did a crappy job firing him, so that’s going to wipe out a lot of things. But I don’t remember him being obnoxious.

I admit that I am cranky, and everything else I’d written for today just fell apart somewhere in the middle, so this is what I can do for a Friday. There is the Tumblr (where I’m posting interesting things, mostly photographs and short thoughts about baseball in general, not just the Mets) and the Twitter but I am not inspired there either. I am going to go close my eyes and sit in a dark room until it’s time to go to the game and hope I can make it there.

A technical note: While I will have a post up about tonight’s game (yes, I am going; this will either make me more cranky or less cranky, I realize), at some point tomorrow, the site is moving to a new web host and there is a potential for downtime, weirdness, and comments disappearing. I probably won’t update again until Monday for that reason.