Willie Gets Whacked

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The Willie Randolph Era ended at 3:15 A.M. this morning following another solid outing from Mike Pelfrey in a 9-6 win over the AL West leading Los Angels of Anaheim of Orange County yadayadayada.

Only after the Mets had won 3 of 4, went 3,000 miles away from the circus of the New York media, won, let him talk to the media, did they have the balls (or lack thereof) to fire Willie. This management certainly hasn't reached the levels of incompetence of M. Donald Grant and pals back in the '60s and '70s but it is certainly worth mentioning.

As I have said before, had the Mets wanted to fire Willie and co. after the trauma that was The Collapse, I wouldn't have held it against them given what had happened. But to fire him at 3:15 in the morning is so many levels of disgraceful, Isiah Thomas thinks it's wrong.

What? You didn't get a chance to fondle his wife and punch his children while you were at it? Did you get to pants him on SNY to make it extra special? If he really was the good guy they always made him out to be and really had respect for him like they say, they would've done this already. These guys also think it's cool to dump a chick via text. Please. They could've done this at any point in time in the last 8 months, yet they left him swinging like a tree tire in a tornado.

The man who's also partly to blame for this is Omar Minaya, who, in time, will face a similar countdown clock and the chopping block. Omar and the rest of the baseball management are at fault for thinking that the glass case of skill that is Moises Alou and the completely finished Carlos Delgado could carry this linueup. They're at fault for thinking that a bullpen that was largely responsible for the September disaster was acceptable as it was in 2007.

What a fucking joke. Congrats to The Wilpons, I hope it was worth it. I hope the beating they take in the New York and national media is as bad as I think it's gonna be.

Jimmy Rollins, Guillermo Mota and Tom Glavine are still to blame for all of this.