eMailbag: Mets Fans are Embarassed
According to the Sports Hernia, the Mets took a ‘classless route’ in the way they chose to fire Willie Randolph.
The blog continues on to list 13 Ways the Mets Could Have Gone about this Better, such as, “Hit Willie over the head with a steel 
chair while he makes a pitching change; then spray paint ‘F-I-R-E-D’ on his back,” as well as, “Drive him to the woods so Silvio can chase him down and shoot him in the back.”
The following two comments seem to reflect the hundreds upon hundreds of e-mails that are bombarding my inbox this morning:
Mike from Lake George writes:
“The morning, radio stations are calling the Mets, ‘The laughing stock of Major League Baseball.’ Today, I’m more embarrassed to be a Mets fan than I was last September. Jerry Manuel may be a great manager, but the way Willie was fired was disrespectful and tasteless.”
Similarly, Michael Brendan Dougherty, a writer living near Washington D.C., writes:
“I never thought that a professional sports team could make me feel personally humiliated. Honestly if the marrow in my bones was not orange and blue, I’d be looking for another team to root for…The Wilpons and Omar Minaya have made baseball a source of frustration, for me, a fan. It would be offensive to call my relationship to the Mets organization one of domestic abuse, but there is no other proper metaphor to express the situation of Mets fans who cannot leave (we are married to this team) yet suffer the stupid, almost drunken blows of management…
“An intern at my office is (a Phillies fan). As a fellow-baseball fan he wants to empathize with me, but behind his eyes, he is smiling at the humiliation of the Mets.”
