Here’s whats hot on Memorial Day weekend, other than your grill and the seat the Willie Randolph is currently residing in.

• Matt over at Mets Blog asks who you want to manage the Mets.
• Marty Noble dips into his mailbag on MLB.com and schools a few people on why motivation and execution is up to the players, not Willie Randolph.
• Wayne Coffey talks about the Willie Randolph he knows and few others get a chance to see on The Score. A pretty sexy shot of Minka Kelly accompanies the article as a bonus.
• Anthony DiComo looks at the later round of the upcoming draft, as the Mets look to restock their farm system, on MLB.com
• Matthew Artus at Always Amazin takes a look at how interim managers have fared over the past 10 years.
• And finally Ian O’Connor, who started this whole mess when he printed what Willie Randolph believed were off the record comments, writes at The Record that Randolph should not have to apologize for being honest.

Have a great Memorial Day folks. Dear Wilpons, please try not to overcook Willie Randolph while you’re raking him over the coals.

Here’s whats heating up the blogosphere this morning.

• Adam Rubin at the New York Daily News reports that Joe Smith sent down to make room for Wednesday’s starter, who is likely to be either Adam Bostick or Willie Collazo. Hopefully this is a temporary move and Smith will return with the team after Wednesday.
• “The Zen of Bobby V,” a documentary about Bobby Valentine living and managing baseball in Japan will air tonight at 9pm on ESPN2. The New York Times has details.
• Bob Raissman in the New York Daily News reports that Gary Cohen and Keith Hernandez of SNY will broadcast Thursday’s Mets game from the upper deck behind home plate.

Here’s the buzz around the blogosphere today…

• Phillies fans at Bugs and Cranks are still whining about the play at the plate last night. Even if Reyes was out, these things tend to even out. You get a call we get a call, get over it. This AP image, however, seems to look like Reyes made it in ahead of the tag.
  
  
• David Lennon at Newsday discusses the venom of the fans early this season and also talks about Mets pitching prospect Jon Niese who is off to a fine start this season. Niese is 1-0 with a 0.82 ERA in two starts for St. Lucie, with 10 strikeouts and one walk in 11 innings. He’s allowed only three hits, including a home run, and opponents are batting .083 against him.
• Ted Berg of SNY interviews Nelson Figueroa, who happens to be a huge Mets fan, on Mets Blog.
• Howard Megdal does a nice profile on Figueroa, “the King of Quadruple-A” in the New York Observer as well.
• Fillip Bondy at the New York Daily News thinks the Phillies/Mets rivalry has surplanted the Braves/Mets rivalry.
• Tracy Coppola at Coppola Sisters is sick and tired of Carlos Beltran being ‘unclutch’

Here’s the buzz around the blogosphere today…

• Adam Rubin has an interview with Tom Glavine today on his blog for the Daily News. Rubin questions his answer after the final game of the season that ‘devastated’ was too strong a word to describe how he felt losing that game.
• John Delcos on his blog for the Journal News has comments from Willie Randolph and David Wright about the importance of beating the teams in their division, specifically the Braves.
• Steve Popper on his blog for Newsday echoes our own Steve DiMartino’s forecast which calls for lots of bad weather in Atlanta this weekend, putting much of the series in jeopardy.
• Mike Steffanos at Mike’s Mets evaluates Omar Minaya’s tenure so far as Mets General Manager.
• Scott Jensen at Dugout Central thinks Jimmy Rollins and Jose Reyes are the most overrated players in the National League.
• Joe DeMayo at Gotham Baseball takes a look at the current crop of Mets prospects.

Here’s whats making news today around the blogsphere…

• Jose Canseco went toe to toe with Pat Jordan, who recently wrote his own book about Jose Canseco, on The Howard Stern Show. Deadspin has the audio.
• Larry Bowa melts down after being ejected from last night’s game. The Daily Chatter has the video.
• Jerry Crasnick on ESPN has a great article of new names of possible impact players around baseball you may or may not heard of.
• Gaslamp Ball wonders, how long before MLB shuts down baseball blogs. Yikes!
• MLB Trade Rumors runs down a list of possible temporary replacements for Pedro Martinez.
• MLB.tv fails on Opening Day, and the Washington Post noticed.