Rosenthal: Mets brass should be ashamed of Randolph firing

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The stain not only is on general manager Omar Minaya, but also those above him — specifically owner Fred Wilpon and his son Jeff, the team’s chief operating officer.

Shame on the Wilpons if their excuse is, “This was Omar’s call.” The firing of a manager only goes down with ownership approval. And ownership is ultimately responsible for the way a team conducts its business.

Fred Wilpon, then, is the most to blame for the Mets’ chaos and dysfunction, which is stirred in part by the strong opinions of his son Jeff and Minaya’s assistant GM, Tony Bernazard.

The Mets’ organizational flow chart looks like a child’s scribble-scrabble. Minaya obviously lacks the full autonomy that the Wilpons promised him. But rather than attack the internal strife, he seemed paralyzed and overwhelmed by the task at hand.

Being GM of the Mets is not easy, not with a cacophony of voices creating unrest inside the organization and numerous outlets in the nation’s media capital demanding answers daily, if not hourly.

Minaya almost could be forgiven if, during the last month, he wanted to put his hands over his ears and scream, “Stop!” But as a native New Yorker and two-time Mets employee, he knows the deal. And he’s failing at a critical task — managing not only the people below him, but also the people above.