Breaking News : Mets On Verge Of Firing Randolph, Peterson, Nieto

Wilpon : The Buck Stopped…With Omar?

Posted 6/17/2008 on Can't Stop The Bleeding

Way to take responsibility for the biggest Mets P.R. disaster since Vince Coleman’s M-80 parking lot party, Fred. ESPN 1050’s Andrew Marchand claims Mets owner Fred Wilpon has characterized last night’s firing of Willie Randolph as “Omar’s decision”, helpfully adding, “you’ll have to ask Omar about that.” While Newsday’s Wallace ...

Wilpons Worst Owners, SNY Worst Network?

Posted 6/17/2008 on Mets Merized Online - A Mets Blog For Real Mets Fans!

Some scathing remarks today from Wallace Mathews of Newsday who said the following... And in the grand tradition of bullies and cowards throughout history, they dispatched Omar Minaya like some corporate Luca Brasi to do their dirty work, to fly across the country and ice the manager in the middle of the night. And after the deed is done, Fred Wilpon, officially-licensed Nice Guy, goes on ...

Did the Mets make the wrong phone call?

Posted 6/17/2008 on The Meaningful Collateral

Were they trying to reach someone else at 3 am? Seriously, Fred Wilpon, she is looking for a jobby job!

Willie Randolph Fired

Posted 6/17/2008 on umpbump.com

Well-respected bloggers such as ourselves get certain privileges. I, for one, was thrilled when a man in a tuxedo named Sebastian rolled up to my apartment in a Bentley a couple of months ago to hand deliver to me a special invitation. I had been invited to the reunion of the family that owns the … [ visit site to read more ]

Mets Fire Willie, Disgrace Themselves

Posted 6/17/2008 on My Pinstripes

Imagine our surprise this morning when we woke up and found out that Willie Randolph was fired by the Mets . The last thnig we saw last night was the Mets clinging to an 8-6 lead in the 8th inning. They held on for a 9-6 win, but Willie along with pitching coach Rick Peterson and 1st base coach Tom Nieto were axed after the game. At 3:14 A.M. EST. After the newspapers had gone to bed on the ...

Newsday: Matthews - Fred, you must go to bat for Willie

Posted 6/17/2008 on BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog

The one man in New York who can save the Mets manager from the indignity and injustice of taking the fall for a room full of underachievers is the biggest achiever in the entire organization. That man is Fred Wilpon, who over the past 28 years as president and CEO of the Mets has cultivated a reputation as a decent man, a man of superior judgment and intelligence. Now would be a good time for ...

The Wilpons need to be heard from on Randolph situation

Posted 6/16/2008 on MLB - Sports Rumors - Yahoo! Sports

It's obvious that ownership of the New York Mets is pushing for change, apparently more so Jeff Wilpon than his father, Fred. And that's his right, especially after the collapse last September and the obvious disgust the Mets' fan base has for this ballclub these days wrote John Harper of the New York Daily News. OK, fine, so either get out front and publicly take responsibility for deciding ...

Randolph will survive first round of firings, Peterson, Nieto will not

Posted 6/16/2008 on MLB - Sports Rumors - Yahoo! Sports

Sources have told the New Daily News that principal owner Fred Wilpon and chief operating officer Jeff Wilpon have authorized New York Mets GM Minaya to make the call on whether to fire manager Willie Randolph, pitching coach Rick Peterson and first base coach Tom Nieto. Bench coach Jerry Manuel would ascend to manager if Randolph is ousted, while Triple-A New Orleans manager Ken Oberkfell and ...

The Axe is Sharpening for Willie Randolph and His Friends

Posted 6/16/2008 on FanHouse

The Willie Randolph saga seems never-ending ... so forgive us if we try to portray it as "finally coming to a head". But the saga may be finally coming to a head ... sort of. From Adam Rubin's blog at the New York Daily News: Sources have told the Daily News that principal owner Fred Wilpon and chief operating officer Jeff Wilpon have authorized Minaya to fire Randolph, pitching coach Rick ...

The Plot Sickens

Posted 6/16/2008 on The Ballclub

By splitting the Single-Admission Doubleheader on Sunday, the Mets managed to take 2 out of 3 from the Texas Rangers. My, how benign such a sentence sounds. I suppose to tell that to someone who had no idea about Baseball, or didn't live within the Media Vacuum that is New York City, it wouldn't mean much. If the Mets managerial and coaching situations were unstable before the Rangers came ...

Fred Wilpon is the problem--Justice

Posted 6/15/2008 on XM MLB Chat

" Everything that's wrong with the Mets begins with the boss, Fred Wilpon . He should have -- and could have -- taken care of the in-house tension a long time ago.... But that's the Mets. This organization has a history of infighting, and the leadership of the franchise is too weak to stop it."... "As Randolph Mess Shows, the Mets Organization is a Joke, " by Richard Justice, 6/15/08 ...

WILPONS ARE TO BLAME

Published 6/17/2008 on NY Post: Sports

Mets ownership, Fred and Jeff Wilpon, completed the impossible: They have made Hank Steinbrenner appear the level-headed baseball owner in town. They oversee an organization that fired a manager and shot themselves. Short of squirting seltzer down...