What a classless thing to do to Willie Randolph (“Meet the Mess,” June 18).
Fred and Jeff Wilpon are gutless cowards who hid in New York while Omar Minaya performed the cowardly act in California.
I am embarrassed to be a Mets fan. It will be a cold day in hell before I patronize the Wilpons again.
Where is Nelson Doubleday when you need him? The wrong partner bought out the other.
John White Jr.
New Hyde Park
Could any manager do a better job with the overpaid, over-the-hill underachievers that Minaya gave Randolph?
Mike Kiely
Throgs Neck
It is a shame that Minaya fired Randolph.
The Wilpons should fire Minaya for wasting their money on players who should be playing for my mother’s nursing-home team.
I wish Randolph luck and hope that he manages somewhere soon.
As for Minaya, I hope that he gets what he deserves.
Bernie Pelaez
Manhattan
The deliberate attempt by Minaya to assemble a team whose majority would be Hispanic turned out to be the death knell for Randolph.
This assemblage has created a pernicious polarization among the players – both in the clubhouse and on the bench.
Randolph was helpless in trying to create a harmonious atmosphere. Of course, the media won’t address this issue for fear of being called racist.
Robert Casale
Hartsdale
Given their payroll and performance at the end of last season and this season thus far, the Mets were probably right to fire Randolph.
However, that doesn’t justify the way they did it – in the middle of the night and on the West Coast.
The Mets had a responsibility to treat Randolph with dignity, even when dismissing him.
They failed on that front and didn’t treat him any better than the team in The Bronx treats its managers when firing them.
Randolph was owed more than that.
Steven M. Clayton
Ocean, NJ
What in the world does the Mets hierarchy achieve when it rids the club of Randolph and Peterson and then promotes the same old, same old?
Sweep clean, gentlemen. Hire a baseball disciplinarian who will get rid of the lazy players and Minaya’s holdovers.
Joe Wiffler
Yonkers
It’s easy to rip the Mets on the firing of Rand olph, but let’s give them some credit for hiring another black manager.
That’s two more than the Yankees ever hired, and they have been around 60 years longer than the Mets.
Bill Weiss
Massapequa Park
Who would have thought that Randolph’s finest hour as manager would come in his last week, as he dealt with being under fire with great humor and class?
Randolph wasn’t necessarily strategically good as a skipper, and he could no longer keep all of his team focused.
It’s also disappointing that Randolph evinced a sense of entitlement up to this month, and he certainly could have been a bit more courageous in how he ran the Mets.
But it’s important to remember that he has always been a good man and a great lifetime New Yorker.
Jim Burns
Valley Stream
It is only apropos that the Mickey Mouse organization known as the New York Mets would make Randolph go to Anaheim, the home of Disneyland, to pull this Goofy stunt.
Bill Viggiano
Williston Park
I hope that Randolph is invited to the last Old-Timers’ Day at the original Yankee Stadium.
With all due respect to Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, Reggie Jackson and even the recovering Bobby Murcer, all of whom are deserving, I hope Randolph gets the biggest ovation of all.
I hope it’s loud enough for every Mets fan to hear.
Michael Pacholek
East Brunswick, NJ