Circus comes to Shea

Whether it was on the radio or through the Internet most of us die-hard Mets fans know every detail of what's transpired over the last 24 hours and there's no way to be happy. It appears that the last year has finally come to a head, if you look at the five stages of grieving this team maybe reaching the end. The Mets spent all of last year denying that there was a problem, at times they have expressed anger towards each other and the umps, Omar has left the core of this team in place and bargained to change the attitude of the team by bringing in Johan Santana, many of the players appear to be in a deep depression over the performance of the club and now it looks like they all may have accepted the fact that there is a bigger problem that needs to be address. Where they go from here is completely up to them, they can fix this internally amongst themselves or force Omar to change things for them....

In 24 hrs the team has played one of their most apathetic games in which they looked absolutely disinterested and fundamentally flawed, after which players were lashing out at each other and pointing fingers, the media descended upon the manager like a pack of wolves, the manager aggressively defended himself and was supported by the GM, then the team had a lengthy closed door meeting......

One of two things will come out of this situation; the club will continue to splinter and completely disintegrate until drastic measures have to be taken to salvage what is left of the season. Or they truly like playing together and are in some sort of communal funk, they will circle the wagons during this crisis as all good families do and come out of this stronger then they started, becoming the championship team we all believe them to be..........

Which ever direction they take, now that this situation is finally at a head and no longer denied, movement is necessary and it wont be long before we see which direction they chose. I hate that this has all played out in the public, the Mets have been pretty good about taking care of their business behind closed doors but the denial was so deep that this seems like the only way it was going to happen. You would have thought that the collapse would have been enough but it simply wasn't as they've continued to play at the same level of uninspired ball.

I hope I'm wrong and this serves to circle the wagons, bring this team closer together and get them back on track, but I do think Willie will have to go. He's a good man and I feel bad for him, especially after hearing him defend himself on the WFAN. But this team has under achieved/preformed and it's the managers job to get the most from his players, which he has clearly not been able to do and by the look of it some aren't playing at all. Like I said if this crisis doesn't rally them, then a change in leadership has to happen and at the end of the year if that hasn't worked then the roster is flawed and some players won't be seeing Citi Field from the home dugout.........