Mets GM Omar Minaya cleaned house early this morning, firing manager Willie Randolph, pitching coach Rick Peterson and first base coach Tom Nieto hours after last night's win in Anaheim. The news was hardly unexpected, though it's a little surprising to hear that players learned of Randolph's fate via text messages from beat reporters ("WILY WUZ CANNED. LOL!"). Our own Mullet brilliantly satirized Randolph's job security on his personal blog throughout Monday's game, joking that "The Wilpons and Omar Minaya have refused to shoot down the notion that the Mets coaching staff will be replaced by the cast of 'The Hills' for Tuesday night's game."
Instead of Lauren Conrad and Heidi Montag, though, Jerry Manuel (Randolph's former bench coach) will take over as the Mets interim manager. He'll be joined on the big league staff by Ken Oberkfell and Dan Warthen, the manager and pitching coach of Triple-A New Orleans, respectively, as well as field coordinator Luis Aguayo. None of these promotions were unexpected.
Now that Minaya has purged the Mets dugout of scapegoats, the only one left to blame is himself. We've already seen on GM get canned this week; is Minaya close behind?
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
6-17-2008 @ 7:15AM
lbeptx said...
i'm embarrassed to be a mets fan...
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6-17-2008 @ 7:41AM
Joyce said...
He should have fired himself.
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6-17-2008 @ 7:46AM
JAESON25 said...
I LIKE WILLIE BUT THIS SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED AT THE END OF LAST YEAR. THE TEAM QUIT ON WILLIE. ONCE YOUR TEAM QUITS ON YOU, YOU BECOME A LAME DUCK MANAGER. THE METS TRIED TO GIVE HIM ANOTHER SHOT AT IT BUT THE RESULTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES. KUDOS TO THE METS FOR GIVING WILLIE A CHANCE TO TURN IT AROUND. BUT IT JUST DID NOT WORK AND THE RIGHT MOVE WAS MADE. IM NOT SURE ABOUT DOING IT AT 3AM AFTER GETTING WILLE ON A CROSS COUNTRY FLIGHT BUT THATS THE NATUE OF THE BEAST.
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6-17-2008 @ 10:37AM
fatboy11 said...
omar put this team together why didn`t he get fired to? willie will be alrigth he will rebound from this .i hope the don`tmets don`t make the playoff.
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6-17-2008 @ 12:03PM
HANK said...
WILLIE WAS A CLASS ACT. A BROOKLYN GUY LIKE ME. BUT ITS TIME TO GO. BOTH PETERSON AND RANDOLPH WERE FIRED. I SAY THIS TO METS MANAGEMENT. YOU DIRTY ROTTEN BASTARDS FOR FIRING HIM IN THIS MANNER. COWARDS AND LOW LIFE. YOU SHOULD HAVE CALLED HIM IN IN NEW YORK. NOT WAIT TO FIRE HIM AFTER A CROSS COUNTRY TRIP. LOW LIFE METS MGMT. WILLIE IS A CLASS ACT. METS MGMT YOU SUCK. ITS A DISGRACE TO BE A METS FAN . NOW GET RID OF MINAYA. DO A COMPLETE WHITEWASHING. START FROM SCRATCH. GET SOME YOUTH HERE. BUILD A TEAM YOU HAVE REYES AND WRITE, BUILD FROM THERE. NO MORE OLD WORN OUT INJURY PRONE HAS BEENS,
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6-17-2008 @ 12:35PM
DEEBO said...
I AM ASHAMED TO BE A METS FAN TODAY. WILLIE HAD TO GO-THAT WE ALL KNOW. BUT BE A MAN ABOUT IT AND FIRE HIM THE WAY ANY MAN DESERVES-FACE TO FACE AND SHAKE HIS HAND. NOT FROM ANOTHER COAST-WHERE YOU'LL PROBABLY MAKE HIM TAKE JET BLUE BACK HOME. THIS IS SHAMEFUL AND DISGRACEFUL-WILLIE DESERVED BETTER THAN THIS.
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6-17-2008 @ 1:15PM
vickie burnswick said...
I AM VERY PROUD TO BE A MET FAN. I DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHY THE FIRED WILLIE WHEN THEY WERE OUT IN CALFORINA. THEY WERE ON THE COME BACK, THE METS WON 2 IN A ROW. I LIKED WILLIE AS A MANAGER,HE KNEW HOW TO GET THE PLAYERS GOING. I HOPE WILLIE DOES FIND ANOTHER JOB AND SHOW THE METS HOW GOOD HE CAN BE.
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6-17-2008 @ 2:38PM
Peter J. said...
WILLIE HAD TO GO! HE SEEMS TO LACKS THE PASSION TO WIN. LAST YEAR WHEN THE METS TOOK A NOSE DIVE, HE NEVER LOST HIS COMPOSURE. THIS YEAR IT'S THE SAME WAY. THE NAME OF THE CAME IS MOTIVATION. SOME HOW SOME WAY THE MANAGER HAS TO FIND A WAY TO MOTIVATE HIS PLAYERS. MONEY DOESN'T MOTIVATE THESE PLAYERS. REYES WAS MOTIVATED AND WILLIE DIDN'T LIKE IT AND TRIED TO CHANGE HIM. WHAT A DUMB THING TO WASTE GOD GIVEN MOTIVATION. GOOD BY WILLIE. WE NEED PLAYERS LIKE THE 86 METS "COCKIE AND SELF MOTIVATED". IT SHOULD BEEN DONE THE END OF LAST YEAR. THE METS HAVE WASTED ALMOST 3 MONTHS OF THE SEASON.
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6-17-2008 @ 9:45PM
luis said...
minaya should be ashame to let managment used him to do thf dirty job.iam ashame even the way the players expressed themeselves i believe they just dont care
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