Mets Did This At 3:00 AM So It Wouldn’t Be On Front Pages

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...