Good job by Jeff Wilpon yesterday by meeting a difficult issue head on. Amid all the criticism heaped upon him – including my own – he demonstrated leadership for an organization badly in need of it.
When Omar Minaya came to town, somehow he became the face of the franchise. For better or worse and whether or not it was intended it became the Mets’ reality. But while Minaya became famous for his interpersonal skills, his rock star status didn’t actually lead. The 2007 collapse, fueled by the meddling of Tony Bernazard who made Willie Randolph impotent, was the first sign that Minaya really wasn’t in charge.

An odd triumverate emerged between Minaya, Wilpon and Bernazard. Ironically not unlike the Davey Johnson coined three headed monster of Frank Cashen, Al Harazin and Joe McIlvaine of the 1980′s. Power sharing really doesn’t work – especially if no one realizes they’re actually sharing power. When everyone is in charge, no one is.

So it was an amazing 24 hours for the Mets. Bernazard’s ouster and Minaya’s meltdown forced Jeff Wilpon to take the reigns. It seemed that he did a very good job of it yesterday. At least for the time being Jeff Wilpon will need to be the face of the franchise he’s spent his entire adult life preparing to be.

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Good job by Miniya to pick him up. But the Mets still cannot count on Pedro Feliciano, Bobby Parnell and K-Rod to pitch in every game they win. The starters are pogrammed to pitch only 5 to 6 innings and its a prescription for bullpen failure collapse by August. The Mets will finish out of the play-offs again if someone besides Johan Santana can get into the last third of the game.

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From DRUDGE, this link

The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America’s short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.

So, should we be listening to Democrats who tell us that the Republican Party is being desstroyed or should we pay attention to a real enemy who detests us all with equal vigor?

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Francisco’s Rodriguez’ proclamation that the Mets – and the world champion Phillies – are the team to beat marks the welcome return of the Mets swagger. Its been awhile, hasn’t it?

Jerry Manuel proclomation to use last season’s collapse as a motivating tool signals a different sort of intensity from the top. The Mets have never really wanted to do that and thus it never served to harden them. Championship season in 1986 and 1988 were preceeded by bitter second place finishes the year before. This particular generation of Mets have never desired to motivate themselves this way. It was as if remembering was too painful to remember. Manuel is not going to go this route.

Such things can come from a team’s closer as his role is thought of in a day to day manner. And now Jose Reyes won’t seem to be the only one.

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From Capitalism Gone Wild via Atlas Shrugs Without a banking system you don’t have an economy.

We are no better off now than we were three months ago.

Someone threw us in the middle of the Atlantic ocean without a life raft. We are trying to determine which is the closest shore and whether there is any chance in the world to swim that far. We don’t know.

Why does it always seem that the names of George Soros and Chuck Schumer come up in situations like this?

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