Gotham Baseball: Healey: Peas In A Pod

So many story lines…what’s next, Michael Sergio turns out to be Bo Field’s twisted son?!

The truth?  Minaya’s firing of Randolph had a heckuva lot to do with his own job security.  If he’s going to go down, he’s going to go down with his own guy, Manuel.  You see, back in 2005, Rudy Jaramillo was Omar’s first choice to manage his club.  Bobby Valentine was also a consideration, but not an option.  Randolph – who had been linked to the Reds with Minaya as a possible manager-GM team in 2000—was a compromise candidate, agreed on by Omar with full support – and strong suggestion—of ownership. 

Then-newly hired Bernazard was never really on board with the hire, but waited until he had consolidated his power to start sowing his seeds of discontent.  For nearly two seasons, Bernazard has been undermining the skipper in the clubhouse and in the front office.  Thanks to The Daily News’ Bill Madden and WFAN’s Mike Francesa and Chris Russo (the latter two are sadly, vastly uninformed in other aspects of the story), his role took him out of the shadows a bit. 

“(Thankfully) he’s Minaya’s problem,” said one baseball official, who spoke with Gotham Baseball Magazine on condition of anonymity.  “He and Goldis are peas in a pod.”