Willie Randolph opens up after his recent firing as Mets manager

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 Willie Randolph opens up after his recent firing as Mets manager
Three and a half years and 555 games after it began, my dream of bringing a championship to the New York Mets officially expired a few minutes after midnight in Suite 1602 of the Westin Hotel in Costa Mesa , Calif. You've heard of Black Friday? Well, this was my Black Tuesday. Call me naive if you want, but I never saw it coming. I was sitting on a sofa across from Omar Minaya , the Mets' ... [link]

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Willie Randolph Reveals How It All Went Down And Writes An Article
Published 6/20/2008 at Mets Merized Online - A Mets Blog For Real Mets Fans!
... Congratulations to the Daily News for getting the priveledge of posting Willie Randolph's personally written article. ...

Willie pens his own article
Published 6/20/2008 by Andrew Vazzano (noreply@blogger.com) at The 'Ropolitans :: New York Mets Baseball Blog
Click here to read Willie Randolph's own article, appearing in the Daily News. It's very cool to see, almost play-by-play, how the whole thing went down between himself and Omar Minaya. ...

Randolph Writes About Being Fired
Published 6/20/2008 by Dave Doyle at The Mets Report
... This is an incredible scoop by the Daily News.  Willie Randolph writes a first person account about his firing by Omar Minaya.  There isn’t that much new that we don’t already know here.  We knew that he was passionate about managing the Mets and that he wants another managerial job.  The only new piece of information that I didn’t already know is this: ...

Willie Randolph: I Never Saw It Coming
Published 6/20/2008 by Josh Alper at FanHouse
... The latest salvo in one of the most one-sided public relations battles ever waged is a first-person account of the final days from Randolph in today's Daily News. Randolph recalls asking ...

Willie Randolph recounts his firing in the NY Daily News
Published 6/20/2008 at Big League Stew
... "I won't lie to you," Willie Randolph says in this morning's editions of the New York Daily News. "I don't like the way the Mets handled my firing. I think it was pretty weak. I think I would've deserved better if my record had been 0-555, not 302-253." ...

THT Live:Willie Randolph opens up
Published 6/20/2008 by Dave Studeman at The Hardball Times
Willie Randolph opens up by Dave Studeman June 20, 2008 Willie Randolph has penned his own article for the Daily News , covering the details of how he was fired. Here's a tip to Omar Minaya and all of you who may fire people in the future: Tell them at the beginning of the discussion. Don't draw it out. Only makes it worse. Take it from someone who's been on both ends of the conversation. Here's part of Randolph's take: And you know what's also on me? The dumb, and horribly timed, remarks I made to a New Jersey reporter after we took two straight from the Yankees last ...

Ex-Mets skipper pens his side of the story
Published 6/20/2008 by Eddie D'Anna at SILive: Ya Gotta Believe
Maybe Wille Randolph is preparing for his second career as a journalist. The dethroned Mets' skipper penned a play-by-play for the New York Daily News on his departure from the Mets organization. My two cents? Willie's very lucky folks are talking about the way the Mets botched his firing as opposed to the fact that he was at the helm of one of the worst collapses in baseball history in 2007, was under .500 with a $139M team in 2008, and led a talented group to the post season just once in four years. Don't look the gift horse in the mouth, Willie. Go do some TV work and ...

Willie Deserved Better – And So Did These Guys
Published 6/21/2008 by Brian Joseph at Seamheads.com
... It wasn’t surprising that Willie Randolph was fired last week by the Mets.  The way GM Omar Minaya and the Mets handled it was.  As for the story of Willie Randolph’s time with the Mets, it was best told by Randolph on Friday on the website of the New York Daily News.  Rather than tell it again, here is a link to Randolph’s own account of the firing. ...

Moving on from the Madness
Published 6/23/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Mets2Moon) at The Ballclub
... guys seem to have no desire to stop trashing the Mets, turning Willie Randolph into a martyr, slamming Jerry Manuel for his "gangster" joke, and trying to drag out a situation that I believe most fans are tired of hearing about. And for the fans who continue to call in WFAN and the like and slam the move, it's time to move on. Get over yourselves. The Mets fucked up the Randolph firing, no doubt. But let's not forget that Willie was doing a lousy job, and Willie deserved to be fired. We don't need a puffy by-line from Willie about it, we don't need stories about how only now, ...

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Willie Randolph Reveals How It All Went Down And Writes An Article

Willie did not rip the organization to shreds. Here are some excerpts from his exclusive interview. Three and a half years and 555 games after it began, my dream of bringing a championship to the New York Mets officially expired a few minutes after midnight in Suite 1602 of the Westin Hotel in Costa Mesa, Calif. You've heard of Black Friday? Well, this was my Black Tuesday.
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Willie Randolph pens his own article

Read Willie Randolph 's own article, appearing in the Daily News. It's very cool to see, almost play-by-play, how the whole thing went down between himself and Omar Minaya.
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Willie Randolph opens up after firing

Three and a half years and 555 games after it began, my dream of bringing a championship to the New York Mets officially expired a few minutes after midnight in Suite 1602 of the Westin Hotel in Costa Mesa, Calif.
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