Willie--OUT (Mets fire Randolph)

Ooh-eee, Vaccaro fucking shredded upper managament with that one. Just shredded them.
Great column.

 

Newsday has some reactions from the Mets:

http://weblogs.newsday.com/sports/baseball/mets/blog/2008/06/the_latest_on_randolphs_firing.html

And doesn't this just sum it all up?

Carlos Delgado and Carlos Beltran both seemed indifferent to the news when approached by reporters and declined to speak any further.

Well, they've been indifferent for the better part of three years. Why change now?

 

I figured Randolph was a goner when I read a response to criticism that he didn't stick up for one of his players who got tossed. "You can't argue balls and strikes," he said. I mean, did he figure that every manager that got tossed for arguing balls and strikes didn't REALIZE they would get tossed if they argued balls and strikes.
Randolph deserved better, but he could have used a dose or two of Dallas Green or Lou Pinella.

 

So the answer is Jerry Manuel? The fail is strong in this group.

 

Well said.

 

Willie was one of my two favorite players when I was growing up and I have always rooted for him. What a shitty way to get fired, especially by your hometown team. F-ing Mets.

 

Willie should never have been hired for this job, but that said -- he didn't deserve to be fired, at this juncture.

At least, Omar now has no further insulation from the bulk of the heat -- because he's next. His overt coveting of a number of overpaid deadheads who've decided to take early retirement while still in Met uniforms will doom him, and sooner, rather than later.

 

Great points, BYH. How did they think this wouldn't be a big deal if they ushered it in at 3 AM? Like you said, it makes them look infinitely worse this way.

Mike and Mike had Bill Madden on this morning and he said much the same.

Ugh.

 

Go Phillies.

 

Willie had me until "Isiah Thomas."

Zero credibility after that.

 

Seriously, does anyone outside of Mets management and us really care what the papers have to say about how they handled it?

Minaya buys himself a few more months by giving Randolph enough rope to hang himself. If he had rightly sacked him after last year's collapse, it's all on Omar.

 

Glad Vaccaro called the Mets exactly what they are: Cowards and a disgrace.