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Maybe Hank will HIRE him between the games of the day-night double-header. I'm just not really sure he has any of the OCD joy/sense of humor that his dad has, just the mouth.
Heck, they should have done it in the middle of a game. Make a real spectacle out of the whole thing.
Say Randolph goes out to make a pitching change, but as he approaches the mound, up on the Jumbotron appears Omar Minaya telling him that he's fired, Donald Trump style.
It's ok. We all see that chip on your shoulder, Willie.
Yeah, unlike the low-key reality...
He managed to not say anything derogatory in his interview, and still paint the front office as incompetent.
Uh, really? I don't see that the decision to fire him was a problem, and honestly, unlike a number of Willie supporters, I don't even think the WAY he was fired was as worthy of the level of negative press that it's gotten.
But as far as seeing a chip on his shoulder, a chip that we all see, I'm not at all. He may be a little over-enabled by this reaction he's getting, but I'm not seeing an over-developed sense of entitlement. Am I missing something?
But still - this piece pretty much summarized the Randolph tenure - never quite on top of everything going on, always a bit surprised with the outcome, but dealing with the outcome with class and stick-to-it ness. I hope he manages another team someday, just not the Mets.
Never met the man but I'm sure he's a decent person. Willie never had a chance to manage before the Mets supposedly because of difficulty in interviews. In hindsight it's not hard to see why. The man is so damn sensitive. It's ok to self-consciously carry yourself with dignity. But it would help to brush off past slights, real or imagined, and have a sense of humor once in a while. Even at the height of his popularity Willie couldn't let go of the cheapstake Reds or "all those teams that interviewed me". "Their loss!" Worse still, he carries this silly stiffness both on the field and in the clubhouse.
There are two sides to the obnoxiousness associated with the Yankees organization and their fans. One side is the Stein clan jackassery. Willie represents the other strand, the constant self-importance, both self-aware and oblivious at the same time.
He had a chance before, as he was offered the Reds job. He turned it down because he could make more money as a coach on the Yankees, once his playoff share was included.
It was that choice to turn down a job that put him back, more than his interview skills - GMs/owners don't like being shown up.
He was to proud to refrain from showing up owners and probably too oblivious that the showing up was bad for his reputation and career.
http://www.sell.com/2ZTSB
(it was listed elsewhere in march, 2008)
Not surprising. The real estate market is a farking mess right now.
Cito? Whoa!
Let's party like it's 1989!
Really, Willie?
Gibbons just got ####-canned while on the road too. It happens.
I'm not surprised that there is a subtle undertone of bitterness in this Willie column. Actually, it reassures me in the sense that he did care a great deal about his job. But that's why if I were in Willie's shoes, I would have held off on writing a column until a couple of weeks later. The wound's still too fresh.
It's always about race with Willie.
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