Mike Lupica's butt buddy and golf buddy, Mets owner Fred Wilpon, finally let Willie Randolph go in one of the most embarrassing, disgraceful, disrespectful ways of all time.
As all the other sports journalists in NY checked in with their nasty columns, calling the Mets hierarchy a bunch of bums, we waited for Lupica to check in with his puff piece, knowing that he can't rip his circle of jerks over in Flushing.
Mike, you outdid yourself today.
Not only did you gloss over the fact that the Mets are the joke of the MLB, but you didn't even write about the biggest NY sports story since the Giants won the superbowl.
All Lupica did today was resubmit a column he wrote almost four years ago, when Willie was meeting with the Mets, trying to become their new manager.
What a fucking copout. Your twisted friendship with Wilpon is keeping you from doing your job. You can't be objective about the Mets because you know Wilpon will no longer give you full body massages if you say anything remotely negative about the sorry state of his team.
You have no spine. You can't do your job.
You are a joke - hopefully you'll get canned at 3 in the morning.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Mike Lupica's Biggest Cop Out Of All Time.
An Article Mike Lupica Would Never Write.
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.
Willie Randolph Gets The Axe.
So Mike Lupica's Mets finally made a move and let Willie Randolph go. Willie Randolph, the man with the most rings in their entire organization, the manager who got the Mets to first place after 18 years, is gone.
How is a manager responsible when they have a team full of slackers and senior citizens?
Here are the "stars" of the Mets that got handed to Willie. What was he supposed to do with this bunch of losers?
Wright - slacker
Reyes - slacker and mildly retarded
Wagner - fucking loser
Pedro - old
Delgado - older than Shea
Beltran - hasn't hit .280 in FIVE YEARS
Castillo - who?
Santana - the one guy who can live up to the hype - congrats, he was only $150 million.
Lupidick is always making fun of the Yankees' problems - look the Mets you confused tool!
Mike loves to make fun of the ages of Yankees players, yet the Mets have the highest average age in the league.
Mike is always pointing out the payroll of the Yankees, even though they always make the playoffs. Meanwhile, the Mets have had the highest payroll in the NL for the last five years, and they have one postseason to show for it. But at least they had a strong showing in 2003 where they finished dead last, and who can forget last year's heroic finish to their season?
Mike is always slamming Steinbrenner for his mouth. His mouth? Look at how the Mets handled the firing of Randolph! "We support Willie!" Then they make him fly to the west coast, they win the game, then he gets the axe. Fucking stupid.
The Mets are a fucking joke. But we'll have to keep reading Lupica's Yankee hating bullshit because he's a douche.
I guarantee at some point in the season if the Yankees start surging and are in line to make the playoffs, Mike will write something like this...
The Yankees have had their share of injuries this year; the (insert Mets or Red Sox here) have had more.
Always knocking on the Yankees when the Mets are the laughingstock of the MLB.
Give it a rest, ass face.