link - In response to Paige's question, he said the recent Krod story didn't surprise him one way or the other. That you can't really know about someone who keeps himself so apart from others, you can't really know what they'll do. He added that Krod is a great pitcher and athlete. Paige asked about Sanchez' experience with the Mets after he was in his car accident in 2006 (which I recall was a very big deal because Sanchez was considered an elite pitcher at the time, it was much discussed on WFAN and I remember Mike Francesa did a telephone interview on the air with Sanchez after the accident). Sanchez said not one person from the Mets called him after the accident, no one from management, not one player.
link - Evidently that also describes the communication that is going on within the organization, considering Jeff Wilpon’s decree, which was the right call. Despite the statements from teammates that they have “K-Rod’s back” there were quite a few extremely upset Mets after what happened in the “Family Room” on Wednesday night. K-Rod got into it with his girlfriend’s father, Carlos Pena, 53. Pena, according to sources, told K-Rod that the reliever could not talk to his daughter the way he did. K-Rod became Krazy-Rod as the incident escalated into a dangerous and ugly scene, in front of Mets’ family and children.
link - There was a time when anger would be the prevailing emotion on a day like Thursday for me, when I had the opportunity to be not only present for the game, but quite possibly be in the same building as Frankie Rodriguez while only one of us was a free man. But Thursday, even though Johan Santana pitched a 4-0 shutout win, I felt a lot of that loss of spirit. Consider that while I stayed until the end, I only sat in my seat from innings 2-5. That's not like me. It's not like me to just be entering the park at first pitch and not already be in my seat. It's not like me to be more concerned with making sure I get a Shake Shack burger than sitting in my seat for the entire game.
link - "Of course, the bad karma gripping the Mets involves far more than this latest confrontation on K-Rod's resumé, a resumé that lists as references Tony Bernazard, Randy Niemann, and Brian Bruney ... Truth is, the Mets need a new and dynamic force in the worst way, something stronger than an adviser who can knock down Omar Minaya's bad ideas. Torre? Bobby Valentine? Cliff Lee? Billy Beane? The Mets desperately need a grand slam between now and Opening Day, 2011, and surprise, surprise: The number of grand slams they've hit this year matches the amount of consideration Manuel would've given to benching a freed K-Rod. None."
link - They want to know, among other things, why nothing effective has been done to control Francisco Rodriguez’s temper. This might be his worst act – punching his father-in-law the face and getting arrested – but this was not his first. It is your curse, Jeff, to run an inferior organization in the same town as the Yankees. But the comparisons are going to come. And so we think of your out-of-control closer and Mariano Rivera. Maybe it should have told the Mets something that at the 2007 All-Star Game in San Francisco, the usually staid Rivera made one request: Don’t put his locker anywhere near K-Rod’s. But the contract was signed by the Mets after that season. There really is nothing to do now, Jeff, except try to gain control of Rodriguez, the whole clubhouse and – really – the whole organization.
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