Fraternization makes Mets' Randolph hostile

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Willie, Dave Don’t Want Your Acta Hugs
Published 4/18/2008 by Dan Lerner at Hot Foot
... David Lennon of Newsday reports that the Mets manager Willie Randolph is not entirely comfortable with the way many in the organization get a little too friendly with Nats mananger Manny Acta. Acta previously was a coach with the Mets. From the boss himself: ...

Fred Wilpon? Brilliant.
Published 4/18/2008 by mr. met at the metropolitans
... and closer using the windup when no one is on base? When they brought that up in the telecast, I almost dropped my latest issue of Barely Legal.....almost. Oh, and Figgy rules. One more thing, Willie did push the right buttons and he did a good job with the bullpen calling the right numbers at the right time and using Schneider at the end was a gamble, but it paid off. Good stuff! Beltran is going to get boooooooooed this weekend. There are two things going on there... Manager Willie Randolph, an ...

Read: Newsday on Acta, and Fraternization
Published 4/18/2008 by Matthew Cerrone at MetsBlog.com
... In today’s Newsday, David Lennon investigates the relationship between the Mets, Acta and Randolph, who tells Lennon: ...

Newsday: Lennon: Fraternization makes Mets’ Randolph hostile
Published 4/18/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Newsday: Lennon: Fraternization makes Mets’ Randolph hostile Fraternization is a violation of the Mets Uniform Code of Baseball Justice (MUCBJ). It falls under a subparagraph of Article 134, and is defined by the Manual For Courting-Dave Marshall (MCDM). Manager Willie Randolph, an old-school veteran of the gang warfare between the Yankees and Red Sox, was not among the intermingling groups of front-office members and players. Not this week, and rarely. To see one of his former lieutenants fawned over by members of the Mets organization probably makes every game against ...

Willie Randolph is pissed
Published 4/18/2008 by edwzipper at Sports Frog
... This week's visit to Shea by the Nationals, a team managed by former Mets coach Manny Acta, again featured the kind of affection usually reserved for family reunions. Hugs, handshakes, plenty of laughs. ...

Willie Randolph claims to not like fraternization
Published 4/18/2008 at Big League Stew
... Currently, Randolph isn't too happy as he's seen a few too many Mets players do a little too much pregame frolicking with Manny Acta, the old Mets coach and current Nats manager. ...