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Eddie Coleman of WFAN said that Bernazard was seen in the dugout chatting up Jerry Manuel for a long time while Willie was tossing batting practice. Everything about this dude just sounds shady, especially the stuff about him running back to players and telling them what Willie said about them in meetings... I read on another forum that he's actually a candidate for the Seattle GM job... I hope he gets it.
This from Metsblog:
Eddie Coleman of WFAN said that Bernazard was seen in the dugout chatting up Jerry Manuel for a long time while Willie was tossing batting practice. Everything about this dude just sounds shady, especially the stuff about him running back to players and telling them what Willie said about them in meetings... I read on another forum that he's actually a candidate for the Seattle GM job... I hope he gets it.
This from Metsblog:
In the last 24 hours, I have heard from people and read a ton of text about how the Mets fired Willie Randolph, which has been described as a ‘massacre,’ as, ‘dishonest,’ and as, ‘disrespectful,’ complete with people comparing it to a mob hit.
According to Omar Minaya, during his press conference with reporters yesterday, he had no choice but to break the news to Randolph at midnight, after a game in the team hotel, because he feared that once the decision was made known to ownership, it would leak and reach Randolph through a ‘third-party source.’
And so, instead of sitting in judgment of how it happened, journalists and fans would be better served by asking why it happened the way it did.
Basically, from what can be inferred in his comments, Minaya believes there is a breach of communication within the organization, which is not good.
It is this sort of fear and behavior that causes dissent, deceit and disastrous decisions, like during the last regime.
Oddly, in the fall of 2006, several reports commented on how tight-lipped Minaya’s regime had been. Yet, here we are, just a year and a half later, and Minaya is making inferences to the contrary, in public, on television, and using it as an excuse for the way he confronted Randolph.
This morning, WFAN speculated that Tony Bernazard and Jeff Wilpon are most likely to blame. During his interview with Minaya on WFAN yesterday, host Mike Francesa said he heard Bernazard was ‘gloating’ on Monday suggesting he already knew and was telling people that Randolph would be fired.
In fact, from what I can gather, people who work in various departments for the Mets were already aware of Minaya’s decision as early as the seventh-inning stretch on Monday.
What’s more, Mets Fans Forever wrote the following on its blog at 11 pm EDT on Monday, long before the press release or before any mainstream media outlet broke the news: “Sources close to Willie Randolph reveal that he has been fired after the game, or tomorrow…This is not a rumor. This is fact.”
Additionally, earlier in the night, around 6:45 pm EDT at Baseball Prospectus, again, long before the press release, Will Carroll reported that Rick Peterson had been fired, later adding, “Sources tell me that the decision was made prior to the game, but that Randolph was not informed until after the game.”
In other words, not only are their ‘leaks,’ but they come fast and to all sorts of writers, be it mainstream columnists or bloggers.
To me, as a fan, who wants to see the Mets operate in the best possible way, this idea of loose-lips is far more significant than Willie Randolph’s ego.
According to Omar Minaya, during his press conference with reporters yesterday, he had no choice but to break the news to Randolph at midnight, after a game in the team hotel, because he feared that once the decision was made known to ownership, it would leak and reach Randolph through a ‘third-party source.’
And so, instead of sitting in judgment of how it happened, journalists and fans would be better served by asking why it happened the way it did.
Basically, from what can be inferred in his comments, Minaya believes there is a breach of communication within the organization, which is not good.
It is this sort of fear and behavior that causes dissent, deceit and disastrous decisions, like during the last regime.
Oddly, in the fall of 2006, several reports commented on how tight-lipped Minaya’s regime had been. Yet, here we are, just a year and a half later, and Minaya is making inferences to the contrary, in public, on television, and using it as an excuse for the way he confronted Randolph.
This morning, WFAN speculated that Tony Bernazard and Jeff Wilpon are most likely to blame. During his interview with Minaya on WFAN yesterday, host Mike Francesa said he heard Bernazard was ‘gloating’ on Monday suggesting he already knew and was telling people that Randolph would be fired.
In fact, from what I can gather, people who work in various departments for the Mets were already aware of Minaya’s decision as early as the seventh-inning stretch on Monday.
What’s more, Mets Fans Forever wrote the following on its blog at 11 pm EDT on Monday, long before the press release or before any mainstream media outlet broke the news: “Sources close to Willie Randolph reveal that he has been fired after the game, or tomorrow…This is not a rumor. This is fact.”
Additionally, earlier in the night, around 6:45 pm EDT at Baseball Prospectus, again, long before the press release, Will Carroll reported that Rick Peterson had been fired, later adding, “Sources tell me that the decision was made prior to the game, but that Randolph was not informed until after the game.”
In other words, not only are their ‘leaks,’ but they come fast and to all sorts of writers, be it mainstream columnists or bloggers.
To me, as a fan, who wants to see the Mets operate in the best possible way, this idea of loose-lips is far more significant than Willie Randolph’s ego.
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