RANDOLPH'S

LUCK

METS
SOAR



" WHY ME "

Willie Randolph is

a VICTIM don't

even try to argue

otherwise

The New York Mets have proven it in spectacular fashion especially the  last 8 games their 8 game WINNING streak topped off with back to back  shut-outs Friday and Saturday beating Colorado on a ONE hitter that  they were an UNDER performing team earlier this season. As of late  Saturday after Philadelphia's loss they are 1/2 game out of  First Place.

They could be there

at the All Star break

The fact that the Mets renaissance coincides with Willie Randolph's  FIRING does not prove at all  Willie was the problem. THAT IS  PREPOSTEROUS. All it proves is that if the Mets did not perform so  miserably in the days prior to his FIRING today Willie Randolph would  be hailed for his Greatness in turning the team around.

You have got to be kidding if you think replacing Randolph with his  bench coach who had been there with the team during those same DARK  days that axing Randolph for Jerry Manuel is the reason. For that  absurdity to have  credibility whether they understand this or not ....

Anyone arguing that the Mets are playing far better because Jerry  Manuel is the manager is in fact arguing that the Mets players ALL of  them purposely played poorly actively tried to lose games because  Willie Randolph was Manager.

Let's take two pitchers as examples Pedro Martinez who had been  pathetic in his limited appearances this season in his last two Starts  last Monday and yesterday Saturday has his two BEST outings this season  and longer. Is that because Willie Randolph is gone. How about Billy  Wagner who was blowing game after game in the 9th inning in the last  weeks of Willie's reign is now winning every contest. Even the one  recent game in which he gave up a 9th inning HomeRun to tie the game  with Willie GONE the Mets came back to win in Extra Innings. WHY.  Because Willie Randolph wasn't there ???

Then there is David Wright and Jose Reyes and a long list of other Mets  Bats that have been booming the last two weeks with Randolph GONE. Is  that the reason why so many players are playing so much better now.  Willie Randolph was FIRED. No way.

We return to the book "The Black Swan" a best selling book about a long  standing theory that the unexpected, that which we would not predict  happens far more often than we admit to ourselves. For NO logical  reason. It is simply a reflection of the reality of Life on Planet  Earth. It is the way things work here for better or WORSE.

The unexpected happens again and again and again. Or put another way  Willie Randolph is the victim of BAD luck and Jerry Manuel the  beneficiary of GOOD luck both for the very same reason. The Mets were  under-performing and for no particular reason EXCEPT that they were  over-due the Mets began playing up to their statistical potential  COINCIDENTALLY just when Willie Randolph was fired.

Had the turn around happened a week earlier which it just as  "logically" might Randolph would NOT have lost his job and today after  Saturday's BIG victory in the Sunday's papers Willie Randolph's beaming  face would be pictured large on the back page of the New York Daily  News and New York Post with accompanying articles HAILING him for  bringing the Mets through a very rough period but NEVER giving up on  the Team.

Instead Willie is forced

to hide out in his NJ

home made to feel

like a LOSER who

is the one reason the

Mets were losing

because he was

Manager life

and Baseball

 very Unfair

" I'M THE LUCKIEST GUY AROUND"