Early Morning Madness: Numero uno edition

TheRopolitansDOTcom posted 7/24/2008 from theropolitans.com [flag]

Bob Raissman has quotes from Fred Wilpon where he admits to screwing up the Willie Randolph firing. From Raissman: Fred Wilpon said he learned something from firing Willie Randolph. And it is this: The next time he fires a manager he'll do it in the light of day, when reporters are not sleeping. --- "I said (to Omar Minaya) 'When are you going to do this?' He said 'After the game (Me [link]

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Top O' The Order: DON'T buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack
Published 7/24/2008 by 'Duk at Big League Stew
... A fan who was in attendance at the last game of Yankee Stadium I in 1973: "By the sixth inning of that last game, all you heard was hammers ... People had come not only to see the last game but to take pieces of the Stadium, and they were tearing it apart. Back then, they didn’t have that much security.” [Dugout Central] 4. Fred Wilpon admits he screwed up the Willie Randolph firing. Ya think so, Fred? [NYDN via The 'Ropolitans]5. If the AL East teams were characters from Batman, which ...

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