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This was their plan? After hours of secret meetings, careful deliberation, and crafted press releases, this was their plan? In the “massacre” that was the firing of Willie Randolph, the New York Mets proved once again why they are, and will forever be, Baseball’s biggest joke this side of Kansas City. Somewhere in that “Running a Baseball Franchise for Dummies” book that seems to guide the Mets front office, it must state that one “cannot, for any reason, fire a manager after a win” and, somewhere near there, it probably says something about not doing it at 3:14 in the morning. But, like the cowards they are, in the middle of the night, they humiliated a man, tossing he, his pitching coach, his first base coach, and his shattered dignity on the next plane back to New York City.

If the Wilpon family wanted to fire Randolph they had ample opportunity to do so throughout the season and no one would have questioned it. All season the Mets had underachieved and a managerial change was not only acceptable but expected - just not like this. Whatever happened to professionalism and decency? To make a man travel 3000 miles and win a pointless game, just to be fired later on that same night is neither professional, decent, nor, sadly, unexpected. And they even had General Manager Omar Minaya do their dirty work for them and then left him on his own to fend off the press. The circus that these ring-leading Wilpons have created has put on yet another, unentertaining show and I promise it won’t be the last – soon, they’ll send Minaya a message in commemoration of his 4^th year in Queens … “Happy Anniversary, you’re fired too”

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