Mets fire Willie Randolph
nydailynews.com 6/17/2008 — The Mets have fired manager Willie Randolph, pitching coach Rick Peterson and first base coach Tom Nieto, the team announced shortly after 3 a.m. on Tuesday. Bench coach Jerry Manuel has been named the team's interim manager.

Mets Fire Randolph
blog.baseballdigestdaily.com 6/17/2008 — Despite winning 3 of his last 4 and showing signs of turning things around, Willie Randolph was fired today by the New York Mets. Wow...unreal. The Mets named Jerry Manuel interim manager, replacing Randolph. Manuel, in his fourth season with the Mets, had been bench coach since 2006. The Mets also named Ken Oberkfell, Luis Aguayo and Dan Warthen to the coaching ...

Mets (Finally) Fire Willie Randolph
sports.aol.com 6/17/2008 — Mets GM Omar Minaya cleaned house early this morning , firing manager Willie Randolph , pitching coach Rick Peterson and first base coach Tom Nieto hours after last night's win in Anaheim. The news was hardly unexpected , though it's a little ...

3:11 a.m.!?!? It makes perfect sense to me
theropolitans.com 6/17/2008 — The word came out at roughly 3:11 a.m. that Randolph had been fired as manager of the Mets. If you take a step back from your emotions and look at the simple breakdown of the time frame, it makes perfect sense.

Willie Randolph Fired
umpbump.com 6/17/2008 — 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 ...

Mets brass should be ashamed of Randolph firing — FOXSports.com News for MLB 6/17/2008
Omar Minaya could have fired Willie Randolph almost any time and Ken Rosenthal would have been OK with it. But this was ludicrous.

Waiting for Willie (updated) — Surfing the Mets - NY Daily News Blogs 6/17/2008
We’re at the team hotel, waiting for Willie Randolph to depart. Billy Wagner just walked by. He looked at the media, smirked and said: “There ain’t no chance,” referring to him being the one to first comment. Tom Nieto ...

Manuel, Randolph share similarities — Major League Baseball News 6/17/2008
Days before Willie Randolph was dismissed from his job as manager of the Mets, a player suggested that Jerry Manuel would be the proper choice to succeed Randolph. And as this player explained the virtues of the man the Mets have chosen to take ...

Rosenthal on Randolph's firing — FOXSports.com News for MLB 6/18/2008
The Mets made the right move at the wrong time. But Ken Rosenthal says all will be forgotten if the Mets go on a win streak.

Minaya replaces Mets coaches Peterson, Nieto, too — Newsday.com - Mets 6/18/2008
ANAHEIM, Calif. - When Omar Minaya revamps, he believes in multiple changes. That was his rationale for dismissing not only Willie Randolph late Monday night, but also pitching coach Rick Peterson and first-base coach Tom Nieto.