Difficulty of getting Mets players to talk to media cited by Francesa

Mike Francesa on WFAN broadcasting from Mets spring training in Pt. St. Lucie the past 2 days discusses David Wright declining to be interviewed today. Mets PR guy was unable to convince Wright to come on with Francesa, who believes Wright is peeved at his criticism of him last year.

• He goes on to say there's an overall problem with the Mets clubhouse after regular season games getting enough players to talk to the media. (Marty Noble noted this also). One reason Francesa sees is English is not the first language of many Mets players and they're just not comfortable speaking to the media in English.

Of the guys that speak English well enough, they're not interested in gabbing, case in point Delgado. Mike says this is why Billy Wagner who happens to be fluent in English ends up in the spotlight which isn't what you want for a relief pitcher.

• Says the Mets do not want pitchers and relief pitchers being on radio now or after games all the time. (I don't blame the players for not wanting to walk into a baited trap, but team owners should just assign various players to talk so it isn't the same ones all the time. This situation isn't going to get better until the beat writer system thins out a little more due to the economy, is my guess).

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