... in response to A Met fan?!!!, posted by Hoda on Oct 29, 2003Actually the Mets payroll was over 40 MILLION less;-) The Mets were getting silly and signing has beens to big deals. The yanks have done that as well, but george just throws more money at the problems and eats his mistakes.
As for Grady gettin fired. . . . I was watching the game and I think if he was on Georges payroll he could not have managed that inning any worse. Pedro rarely pitches into the eigth, he's a little dude. The sox still had Timlin, Emry and their closer available. In game 7, pedros job was to be winning after 7, and he was. Give the ball to the pen for 2 innings and you win.
I felt both Grady and Torre sent bad messages to their pens in the series. They both showed their pens that they had little or no respect or confidence in them. So I felt that whoever won would have bullpen problems in the WS.
Pitching in the WS is tough. Doing so while knowing your manager thinks you can't get it done, is even harder.
Let me know when you are planning the DR, trip!
