Check out how Mike Vaccaro of the New York Post rips the Mets to shreds on their firing of Willie...
What a crowd, these bums are, all of them, from the Wilpons at the top to Omar Minaya down below, all of them who conspired to botch this firing worse than any firing has ever been botched. Ever. You wouldn't trust these guys to run a 7-11, let alone a National League baseball team. What a joke. What a cowardly, dastardly joke.
A midnight massacre.
A 3 a.m. thrashing.
Disgraceful. Utterly, completely, disgraceful.
And here's the ridiculous part: They could have gone through the transaction of what they did – firing Randolph, firing Rick Peterson, firing Tom Nieto, elevating Jerry Manuel and Ken Oberkfell and Luis Aguayo and Dan Warthen, at any time across the past few weeks and they would have been perfectly justified.
Hell, if they wanted to raze the whole staff last October, after the epic collapse of September, that would have been all right, too. You may not have agreed with it (although a loud segment of Mets fans surely would have). But that would have simply been a baseball decision. And the baseball was enough to warrant it.
This? This is unspeakable. These men couldn't have been fired in New York, before heading on a plane and flying 3,000 miles to their doom? They couldn't have been spared the ignominy of a public perp walk back east, their dignity thrown into their carry-on luggage?
Really?
Is this the best the Mets can do? Is this really what they are about? Can they really consider themselves a professional operation when they do the simplest task in sports, firing the manager, this wretchedly?
Lupica could never write this, because Fred Wilpon will probably stop giving him reach arounds in the men's room at Shea.
Lupica, I fucking dare you to rip the Mets like they deserve to be.
I won't hold my breath.
2 comments:
This is the first thing I thought of when I heard the news this morning. I'll make a bold predicition: here's the article Lupica will actually write:
"Mets Make a Tough Move They Had To Make".
It will be all about how the Mets had NO CHOICE but to fly Willie and his staff all the way to Anaheim and have them sit through a win so that they could all be fired past 2AM Eastern Time.
Tough, but it had to be done...y'know? That's the spin he'll put on it.
The only "tough move" that the Mets have to make... is making a trade to add a BAT or two to their lineup. Their offense is pathetic. That's why they're losing. Not because of Willie.
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