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Posted by Hasan H, June 17, 2008 - 9:34 am

True to form, the Mets bungled another high profile situation and fired Manager Willie Randolph in the middle of the night, against my wishes, of course. I felt that he deserved a dignified exit and he didn’t get it.

Around $50 million of this $140 million Mets team has either been on the DL for significant lengths of time this year or underperforming (Alou, Pedro, Delgado). So any arguments we will hear from Minaya today will be full of crap. Additionally, it is the front office that has allowed the tensions within the organization go grow and let Willie hang out to dry in the media.  As I said in my previous post, Mets ownership needs to either fire Omar Minaya or sell the team to competent owners who can trust their baseball people and stand behind them.  Obviously, Willie is no angel in this situation either.  His accusations of racism against SNY were ill-timed and uncalled for.  However, he did help turn the franchise around and I feel he deserved better.