After Wagner's Remarks, Mets Face Questions

Mets manager Willie Randolph called a closed-door meeting in response to the latest remarks by closer Billy Wagner, who said Friday he was being critical of the media, not his teammates. With the Mets off to a 20-19 start following last September's collapse, questions about Randolph's future have come up on talk radio and in newspaper columns, although it apparently has not been a topic of debate in the executive suite.

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Manager Willie Randolph closed the clubhouse door and had a long session with the Mets , trying to apply a tourniquet to the team's latest open wound. "Just talked about playing better baseball," he said before the Mets-Yankees game was rained out on Friday night. "We did talk about other things, there was something that was said and written about, so we made sure we were all on the same page, cleared the air, but we didn't spend too much time on that."

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Mets Let’s suppose for a moment that last September didn’t happen. With the more recent visit to a league championship series, a better (if not acceptable) current record and Johan Santana scheduled to open the Subway Series at Yankee Stadium on Saturday after Friday’s rainout, the Mets would be sitting pretty, or prettier than the Yankees.

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Mets The Mets held a 45-minute team meeting in which Manager Willie Randolph , Wagner, Delgado and other players discussed avoiding distractions and focusing on baseball. Randolph later said that he was not worried about speculation regarding his job status.

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