Willie Randolph Wonders if Race Is Contributing to the Rumors About His Job

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 Willie Randolph Wonders if Race Is Contributing to the Rumors About His Job
Willie Randolph 's team granted him a reprieve from the overwhelming whispering about his job security by pounding the Yankees twice this weekend. The discussions, if slightly muted, will continue and are sure to boil over when the team loses a few games in a row. Randolph had avoided taking the bait to offer his own opinion until before Sunday night's game. Ian O'Connor of the Bergen Record ... [link]

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Quantity Of Crap
Published 5/21/2008 by Metstradamus (noreply@blogger.com) at The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus
... in which Willie Randolph was wondering why SNY painted him in a bad light ... only showing him in moments of seething and frustration and not when he's schooling his players, and why Met fans were booing their team in April. And then he wondered how much of that has to do with race. And at the time, I saw this reaction to it along with others and thought that there really was nothing else of substance I could add. ...

Silence is Golden Willie
Published 5/25/2008 by Russianator (noreply@blogger.com) at Three Idiots on Sports
... , combined with this year's poor start has finally caught up with him, because Willie seems to be coming apart at the seams. Last week he wondered aloud if race was part of the reason why he had come under such scrutiny (its not race, its all the losing Willie). He quickly ...

The Pressure is On
Published 5/26/2008 by Sooze (noreply@blogger.com) at Babes Love Baseball
... Really, Willie? You don't? Aside from your ridiculous comments last week, your Mets have dropped six of seven and nine of thirteen. Also, they're averaging 2.4 runs over their last seven, making it more than difficult to win ballgames. ...

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