It’s no coincidence why Omar Minaya opted to fire Willie Randolph in the dark of night.
He needed to hide in the shadows because he mishandled this situation from the start. He had to make sure that the news would come out so late that it wouldn’t appear on the front pages of newsstands all across New York, or glaring at us from our lawns and doorsteps when we stepped out of our homes this morning to get the paper.
It was gutless move in a string of gutless moves by the Mets and Omar Minaya. While many New Yorkers had become disenfranchised with Willie since the collapse in 2007, many of them are shocked not that he was fired, but at how the deed was done.
The Mets have made Willie Randolph a martyr in this city.
Willie never had a chance since 2007, because it was clear Jeff Wilpon never wanted him. He used Omar Minaya to carry out the execution which ended up being a month long torture for a man who if nothing else, gave the Mets his heart and soul.
Willie had to endure many insults in the past few weeks… too many to mention.
It is the most undignified, classless, cowardly and bungled managerial firings I have ever witnessed. Can’t the New York Mets ever do anything right?
