When the Mets collapsed late in the 2007 season, giving up a seven-game lead with 17 left, they talked about accountability but left manager Willie Randolph in place.
In Boston, Terry Francona steps up and takes responsibility. It probably is the first part of the cleanup, but it is a first step and it shows the Red Sox are serious about what just happened in a way that the Mets never were.
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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I think Francona is a very good manager, but I also think a change will be beneficial for the team PROVIDED they get someoen who's not much worse than Francona.
Yeah – its real hard to get past the taint on the team after one of these. Its no wonder the only ones left from 2007 are Wright and Reyes (I'll leave Pelfrey out of this, because he was a rookie and he is far more tormented by the voices in his head than the collapse.)