Links: Reaction to Yesterday’s Circus
For player reaction to yesterday’s events, including quotes from David Wright, Billy Wagner, Pedro Martinez and Carlos Beltran, among others, check out David Lennon in Newsday and Bart Hubbach for the New York Post, as well as the Daily News.
To hear what the Phillies think, including quotes from Charlie Manuel, Brad Lidge, Jimmy Rollins and others, read Brian Costello’s report for the New York Post.
According to Wayne Coffey, in the Daily News, Willie Randolph’s personal friends are not very happy with how things went down yesterday.
In Newsday, media critic Neil Best claims that the media really ‘stoked the fire,’ with regards to how Randolph’s firing was covered.
…as i mentioned yesterday, i thought the perception of ‘outrage’ was a little out of control…i mean, you would have thought the actual reporters had been fired at midnight…it all came off as beyond personal…very weird…
…i think SNY did a great job with commentary, but even they were a bit overboard with the dramatic music that led in and out of every commercial…while watching it, you might have though the President had been assassinated…
