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Mets Owner Fred Wilpon finally spoke on the Willie Randolph firing and Omar Minaya's current status as General Manager.
An excerpt from the Associated Press article:
Mets owner Fred Wilpon knew on Sunday that Willie Randolph would be fired on Monday, after flying to the West Coast to manage one more game.
Wilpon said today GM Omar Minaya made the initial decision to fire Randolph after the doubleheader split against Texas at Shea Stadium. After speaking with ownership, Minaya made the final call Monday.
Wilpon, asked if he regretted sending Randolph to California, "You can always look over your shoulder and think things like that, but the intent here clearly was to respect Willie. To do it in person. It's never easy to fire anybody. Omar took a lot of time. We took a lot of time listening to him and thinking about it. He wanted to respect Willie, and that's what he did."
Wilpon praised Randolph's performance as manager but agreed with Minaya's decision to replace him.
"It's all a matter of performance," Wilpon said, "Recognize, Omar gave Willie a chance to be in this position. He had never been a manager in the major leagues or minor leagues. I think Willie did a good job. The results of the last say 14 months were not up to what we thought it had to be."
In an interview with William C. Rhoden of the New York Times, Willie Randolph commented on his firing and specifically, the timing of his firing:
On Sunday, Randolph said, he asked Minaya to pull the trigger if that’s what he had in mind. “I actually asked him,” Randolph said, “I said: ‘Omar, do this now. If you’re going to do this, do this now. I know you’ve got a lot of pressure on you, but if I’m not the guy to lead this team, then don’t let me get on this plane.’ I did say that to him.”
Asked if he believed Omar Minaya made the decision to fire him, Randolph questioned that and said:
“I have my doubts. Let’s just leave it at that. I have my doubts.”
Randolph on his reaction to his firing said:
“I didn’t see this coming,” Randolph said. “When I spoke to Omar the day before I knew there might be some changes, but I got the feeling I was safe. I thought that maybe to the Yankees series or at least to the All-Star break.”
It sure looks like this isn't going to go away anytime soon. The firing of Randolph could possibly cause more damage to this team than the collapse of last season. Everyone knows that Randolph and Minaya are very close. Minaya actually said he loved Randolph. How did a post-game conversation where Randolph asked to be fired, only to be given the impression he had some time to right the ship, then fired a day later.
There is now a cloud hanging over the top of this organization. The media has picked up on the fact that Randolph was undermined by Bernazard and now Minaya could be too.
You get the feeling that Randolph was just the tip of the ice berg. If the Mets don't start winning a lot of games, beat writers will make it their business to get the behind the scenes drama on the front page daily.
Here's hoping the team starts winning because with the collapse of 2007, the Ryan Church debacle, and Reyes pouting like a girl on the field, what would the Mets become if the fallout gets any worse?
According to ESPN the Mitchell Report will be released between October 31st and the end of the year. It will list "well known" players. "This is going to be enormous ... it's going to be a huge story when these names come out."
Well this is what every news agency in the world has been waiting for. I'm going to be honest, I'm seriously scared that Mike Piazza is going to wind up on this list....which would just be terrible.
Former Vice President Al Gore and the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their work to raise awareness about global warming.
Now that Gore has his Nobel Peace Prize that leaves only "blowj@b from Angelina Jolie" and "my very own rocketship" on his list of unreasonable demands to jump into the 2008 presidential race.
CNN is reporting that some scientists think they have figured out the real job of the troublesome and seemingly useless appendix. Click hereto read about their conclusion...
A thousand year old mystery solved and somehow I'm still not quite consoled over the Mets 2007 season.
CNN reports that a
girl swam more than a mile in the Xiang River on Tuesday, traveling
with the current. The girl swam by moving like a dolphin and would
sometimes paddle with her bound hands.
Before I realized that this was
something some girl in China did willingly, all I could think was,
"What is it going to take for Brett Myers' girlfriend to say enough is
enough?"
According to CNN, a jury ruled Tuesday that New York Knicks coach Isiah Thomas sexually harassed a former top team executive, subjecting her to unwanted advances and a barrage of verbal insults, but also ruled he does not have to pay punitive damages.
In another instance of remarkably poor judgment, immediately after the verdict was read Isiah Thomas turned to the most attractive woman in the jury pool and remarked, "I suppose a blowj@b is completely out of the question?"
Batman Crewmember Killed Oddly enough, he was not killed by a giant razor being slowly lowered on a pendulum
Two Female Ninjas Rob PA Gas Station Yeah boss, so these two smokin' hot ninjas busted in here and stole all the cash. No, I'm not high. What do you mean I'm fired?
So let's think this out. It kind of makes sense, I mean the guy got away with killing 2 people, robbing a casino should be easy. All he'll have to do is show how the dollar bills don't fit in his back pocket. And then he can write a book about how he 'would have' robbed the casino.
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