RJ Anderson at Beyond the Box Score:Now I do understand that three outfielders the Mets were depending on to fill out the roster are on the disabled list -- Ryan Church, Angel Pagan, and the potentially finished Moises Alou -- but for the love of all that is holy can Val Pascucci get a look over Endy Chavez? He's a decent pinch runner you say, well how about Marlon Anderson? He plays all over? Wait...

(King Felix, indeed. Winking. Getting took out.)Simon says:The Mets were already down a handful when Carlos Beltran was run from the game by an unseasonably ornery home plate umpire Brian Runge. Marlon Anderson came in to finish Beltran's at-bat, at which point the Mets' lineup looked like this (2008 EqA in parens):Jose Reyes (.295)Luis Castillo (.262)Marlon Anderson (.167)Carlos Delgado (.247)Trot...

Wow, things are stale around here. I pull up B!T and everything's about Willie Randolph. Well Willie's not here no more. There's a new sheriff in town.I gotta say that I like Jerry Manuel right now. I like his grizzled visage. I like his square glasses. I like that only one at-bat into his regime he went out into the field and literally grabbed his star young shortstop by the arm and told him that...

Willie Randolph writes about his time with the Mets and how he feels about getting fired. It's pretty boring. I wish I could say he is a better writer than he was a manager, but it wouldn't be true.Honestly, I really don't feel that bad for him. The Mets missed the playoffs by one game in 2007, and I have to think that Willie's stubbornness and obstinacy was a leading cause of that. If he would hav...

Bob Klapisch shares with us an event from early May:The manager summoned one of his veterans into his office for a closed-door meeting, challenging him to focus more on baseball. It was a rare, line-in-the-sand moment for Randolph, who avoided confrontation with his players. But the manager's attempt to assert his authority failed miserably, as the two men raised their voices at each other.As he wa...