Monday, June 16, 2008

CLOCK STRIKES TEN.

As most of you know, I like Omar. I take umbrage when morons try to interject the type of racist nonsense I term “The International Latino Baseball Conspiracy”.

But last night, listening to him in the post-game press conference, I lost a tremendous amount of respect for him:

“I can’t answer that [whether Willie will be the manager for the rest of the season].  He is my manager today, and I have the right to evaluate him as we go along.  Let me put it this way, he is always being evaluated...It’s a situation that I’m constantly evaluating.”

What a terrible answer - not just for the media, but for Willie, for the fans, and for the players on the team. Terrible.

Every person I run into is asking me if Willie’s going to be fired. And I was going to tell someone this morning to shut up - and then I realized that at this point, I stand just as much a chance of being a reliable source of information. Everyone is reporting something different every five minutes. Everyone has an inside source. Everyone knows for sure.

It sucks enough being a fan right now. This is not making it any better. At least people had respect for Omar before. He’s just looking terrible right now, and not just because of the players he is giving Willie to put on the field every night.