Links: Disgraceful, Cowardly, Massacre, etc.
In the New York Post, Mike Vaccaro calls last night, ‘A midnight massacre,’ which he describes as, ‘Disgraceful,’ and ‘Unspeakable,’ while asking, “Is this the best the Mets can do? Is this really what they are about? Can they really consider themselves a professional operation when they do the simplest task in sports, firing the manager, this wretchedly?”
According to WFAN’s morning hosts, who are broadcasting from Anaheim today, claim that their host station’s producers were pointing to Vaccaro’s article and mocking New York City when they arrived at the studio.
In Newsday, Jim Baumbach categorizes the way the Mets handled the situation as being, ‘cowardly.’
To relive the entire experience, from last year’s collapse, to last night’s ‘massacre,’ read Bill Rhoden in the New York Times.
According to Joel Sherman in the New York Post, “The Mets have their own network and a new stadium is being built beyond center field in the parking lot. The ownership of this team is aghast at what a losing season might mean to revenues in these two ventures. So the management of this team decided to sacrifice Willie Randolph and two coaches as much to higher Nielsen ratings and luxury suites as to the poor record they feared would jeopardize the gravy train.”
