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http://www.inhistoric.c om/2008/06/mets-fire-ra ndolph-in-hillary-esque -way.html

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Meet the Mets!

Willie Randolph's firing was a classless move by an organization that has no idea what it is doing. The Mets treated the face of their organization like a piece of garbage for nearly a month and then they let the axe fall in a hotel room three thousand miles from home. Willie Randolph was apparently fired in a hotel room three thousand miles from home. He was treated like...

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Willie Randolph has been fired, and he has the Internet to thank. And sports talk radio. And the newspapers. And the TV people. New York Mets GM Oscar Minaya? He's the least culpable, ironically -- though he's the guy who pulled the trigger, or to be more accurate, the plug. Randolph, the now deposed Mets manager, was taken off life support at the rather symbolic time...

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