Willie Needs to Go

Willie Needs to GoThere, I said it. Everyone else seems to defend the guy. Make excuses, blame someone else. Not me, I can't take it anymore. If he doesn't blow their playoff chance, he WILL blow their shot at a championship. Maybe I'm a little biased. I never wanted him as manager anyway. Why do we have to mimic the Yankees? We have to hire an ex-Yankee for our manager? Wasn't there anyone else? Anyone could have been better than Art Howe but that isn't saying too much. I'm not saying they should go back to Howe, but they definitely need someone new. At least right now, Willie does not have what it takes to succeed as a manager. He has much more learning to do.The Mets are a much better team than they were with Howe which make Willie's job easier. Though he still finds ways to screw it up. As much as people don't want to admit to it, he does not have the killer instinct, a quality that after this past weekend series against the Phillies the players are sorely missing.Why is it that whenever the Mets win the first 2 games in a series, EVERYONE rests in the third game? They should be taking advantage and go for a sweep, show that killer instinct. But Willie rests most of, if not all of the regulars and they wind up getting hammered. (See 3rd game of Reds series) When showing the lineup for the Phillies during Sunday's game, Keith Hernandez even mentioned, "When you've won your 1st 2 games, you go with your guns in the third." When was the last time the Mets did this? I understand guys needs days off, but not all at the same time. They have a good enough team that they can survive with a few of their bench players playing, not all of them at the same time.Poor play killed the Mets this entire series. When did professional ballplayers forget how to catch routine fly balls and grounders? They needed to come up big time this weekend and put the Phillies away. They crumbled and a lot of that has to fall on their manager. I know what the Willie apologists are going to say... "It's not Willie's fault that the team made 6 errors and walked 11 batters on Sunday." You are right, he didn't. But, once Carlos Beltran hit his clutch home run to tie the game at 5, all of that has to be forgotten. They came back and it is a new ballgame. It IS Willie's fault that he is so stubborn and keeps using Guillermo Mota in close games. Games that he has no business being part of. Of the 3 batters he faced, 2 of them were walked. Willie has to stop with this blind allegiance to these losers. It took him a while to stop using Scot Schoenweiss in big spots. How long will it take for him to do the same with Mota?Willie's in-game management leaves many scratching their heads. His reasoning makes many scream. When you are trying to crush your division rival and put them away, how can you say that Mota is your guy? He has failed in just about every scenario that he has been used in yet Willie keeps on trotting him out there. When was the last time the Mets used a squeeze play? A double switch? I don't know if Willie knows what they are. He burns through so many pitchers because of this. And finally some advise for Willie. When you claim that a pitcher is unavailable or needs a day off, make sure that players knows about it. According to Billy Wagner, he was not aware that he was unavailable and did not ask for a day off.