Bear
06-17-2008, 12:12 PM
Tuesday, Jun 17, 2008 8:25 am EDT
Cowards. That's what the New York Mets upper management has become. Huge cowards who care more about appearance, public relations and their own personal reputations than the performance of their team. Fire your manager via a mass e-mail to the media at 3:11 a.m.? Yuck. You know what this reeks of? Someone made this decision days ago and agonized for hours on how to announce it to the public in the best way possible to keep the pressure off their own self wrote Jim Baumbach of Newsday.
Is it Omar Minaya or is it Jeff Wilpon? It's one of the two. Today, we see firsthand Corporate America joining hands with a Major League Baseball team, 21rst century style. It used to be that teams did firings and and announced negative news on Fridays, because the Saturday newspaper is the smallest and least read by the people who buy their tickets and paraphernalia. But in this day and age where news hits the Internet in minutes and the news cycle is endless, the Friday bad news game is meaningless. So what do the Mets do? They wait until their team heads to the West Coast, wait until their fans are in bed, wait until Randolph returns to the hotel and fire him then.
This is not about whether this was the right move. Randolph probably deserves to get fired based on how much this team has under-performed for the past year-plus. But Randolph deserved better than how the Mets handled this, and so did the players and the fans.
Source: Newsday
My questions are did Randolph deserve to get fired, and will it make any difference durning the 2008 season? I am not so sure.:shrug:
Cowards. That's what the New York Mets upper management has become. Huge cowards who care more about appearance, public relations and their own personal reputations than the performance of their team. Fire your manager via a mass e-mail to the media at 3:11 a.m.? Yuck. You know what this reeks of? Someone made this decision days ago and agonized for hours on how to announce it to the public in the best way possible to keep the pressure off their own self wrote Jim Baumbach of Newsday.
Is it Omar Minaya or is it Jeff Wilpon? It's one of the two. Today, we see firsthand Corporate America joining hands with a Major League Baseball team, 21rst century style. It used to be that teams did firings and and announced negative news on Fridays, because the Saturday newspaper is the smallest and least read by the people who buy their tickets and paraphernalia. But in this day and age where news hits the Internet in minutes and the news cycle is endless, the Friday bad news game is meaningless. So what do the Mets do? They wait until their team heads to the West Coast, wait until their fans are in bed, wait until Randolph returns to the hotel and fire him then.
This is not about whether this was the right move. Randolph probably deserves to get fired based on how much this team has under-performed for the past year-plus. But Randolph deserved better than how the Mets handled this, and so did the players and the fans.
Source: Newsday
My questions are did Randolph deserve to get fired, and will it make any difference durning the 2008 season? I am not so sure.:shrug: