Buzz: Today’s Meeting at Shea Stadium
From what I can gather, Fred and Jeff Wilpon want to meet with Willie Randolph today at Shea Stadium, not to fire him, but to speak with him face to face about a) his racially-charged comments about the city and team, spoken last week to the Bergen Record, and b) the team’s play, and to make it clear that the current state of the team is unacceptable.
For what it’s worth, the way I have heard it, the team’s owners were far more disappointed over the race remarks than any comment about SNY.
That said, the team’s lack of consistent success, and the air of frustration surrounding the them and in the stands and in the ratings is ownership’s biggest concern.
The Wilpons are not the type of people to overreact, though, so my sense is that they’ll take what they learn in today’s meeting with Randolph and Omar Minaya, watch the week-long home stand, see how the team, media and fans respond, and then decide how best to turn this ship around.
