While many players showed their support for Willie Randolph following his two and a half hour meeting with Mets ownership, Carlos Delgado had this quote regarding if he thinks Randolph should be the Mets manager, on ESPN News

“I’m not in the position to think or not think, they don’t pay me to think. They pay me to play baseball.”

Delgado is right. He does get paid to play, so maybe he should start playing up to the level of money the Mets are paying him.

Jon Heyman of SI.com prodded Delgado, asking him to address the question of if he thinks Willie Randolph should be the manager, to which Delgado replied,

“If you wanna be an ass, I can be an ass too.”

Most players put it on themselves, saying that Willie doesn’t deserve the blame, and that its up to the players to turn things around. Carlos Beltran was supportive, and said Willie should remain as manager. He said that someone should speak to the team about Willie’s status and he’d prefer they tell them that Willie would remain with the team through the end of the season, John Delcos of the Journal News reports.

“I think they should say that,” Beltran said. “It is a distraction. The reality is people say it doesn’t effect the ballclub but it does. You come to the ballpark wondering what’s going to happen.”

Omar Minaya said that Willie was never in danger of losing his job and that the controversy was a creation of the media. They simply wanted to speak to him in person about the comments he made regarding SNY and wanted to discuss a game plan to improve the team going forward.

As players were talking to media, David Wright walked through the clubhouse clapped his hands and said “We got a game to play tonight guys”