[KILLERBS24]

I'm not really sold on Willie as a great manager yet, he might turn out that way. Its hard to really tell because he has so many problem areas with this team, just getting them through the year with a respectable record will be a good job. I havent seen alot of the Mets so as far as managing a game I couldn't say anything good or bad about him.
The one thing that has bothered me about Willie thus far is the way he talks about Reyes. The "he's young I don't want to take his agressiveness away" speech kinda disturbs me. The kid needs to learn patience at the plate, its not just going to happen. Someone needs to be getting in the kids ear about it and thats Willies job. Now maybe he has said something to him, but publicly he keeps saying he's not worried about it, and he doesn't want to change him, that worries me.
But its obvious he worked under Torre as far as talking with the media. Just like Joe, Willie will always find a way to talk good about a player no matter how awful they are, or how bad they are playing. Thats a good thing, but you can only listen to so much of that before it gets annoying. Just once if a guy is just playing brutally I'd like to hear them come out and say he's playing terrible, I don't know what were going to do. Like Joe with Giambi this year, he still is positive when he talks about him, come on Joe just come out and say it.