Post by Zafar on Jun 17, 2008 19:51:31 GMT -6
It seems there is some ppls getting the boot here. This is taken from
seattle.mariners.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080617&content_id=2946812&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb
ANAHEIM -- Shortly after Willie Randolph arrived back at his hotel on Monday night, fresh off a victory, Mets general manager Omar Minaya called him into his own hotel room. The two talked for roughly 15 minutes, and then the conversation ended.
Randolph emerged from the room no longer manager of the Mets.
"I wanted to go directly to Willie myself and personally tell him of this decision," Minaya said. "I wanted to look him in the eye and tell him straight."
Minaya then called pitching coach Rick Peterson and first-base coach Tom Nieto into his makeshift office, and those two also left without jobs. He offered the interim manager's job to bench coach Jerry Manuel and contacted replacement coaches from Triple-A New Orleans. Only hours after flying across the country for this sole purpose, Minaya's quick purge was complete.
The Mets issued a press release just after midnight on the West Coast, 3:15 a.m. ET, and most Mets players heard the news around that time. A new era, however sudden, had begun.
"I don't have much to say, really," Randolph told multiple news outlets from his hotel in Costa Mesa, Calif. "I'm just very disappointed that I'm not going to be able to fulfill what my dream is, which is to come here and help this team win a world championship. I'm just going to miss my players. To the fans, I'm really sorry that I wasn't able to fulfill what I really said I wanted to do here and get this team to a world championship. That's what I've been about. It's very, very difficult right now, but I'm ready to move on."
Randolph then flew back across the country to be with his family in New Jersey.
"I was really stung by it," Randolph said. "I was surprised."
The dismissal itself was not the surprising part. Randolph knew his job was in danger, and he went as far as to ask Minaya last week to make a decision -- one way or the other. The two talked after Sunday night's doubleheader against the Rangers back in New York, and Minaya told Randolph that he would almost certainly make a choice during the team's road trip to Anaheim and Denver. Either Randolph would remain for the balance of the season or he would be dismissed.
Minaya slept on the decision, then decided on Monday morning that Randolph's time was up. So he flew to California, and arrived in the midst of his team's win over the Angels, and then called Randolph into his hotel room after the game.
"That's all it is," Minaya said of his conversation with Randolph. "It's a kid from Brooklyn communicating with a kid from Queens."
Minaya did not dismiss Randolph on Sunday, he said, because he wanted more time to think over the decision. He did not dismiss Randolph directly after Monday's game because he considered that disrespectful. And he did not wait until later Tuesday morning because he feared that some news outlet would break the story.
So instead Minaya did it at a most unorthodox early-morning time.
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