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Who should the Mets fire first?
Posted by Fired Fred on October 1, 2007 4:09 PM
As much as I'd like to weep bitterly about the Chargers losing yet another game, and suggest Norv Turner's firing involve him set adrift in the Pacific aboard a blazing Viking funeral boat, I can't ignore what the Mets managed to not do this weekend.
If you listen to any sports radio at all, you've heard the Mets blew a 7 game lead with 17 left to play. It's a bigger collapse than Michigan losing to Appalachian State. Like, the biggest collapse in professional sports ever.
I'll guess the Mets fans want blood, because this was one of the less obscene blog posts about it that I've seen today...
The Mets finished off their late-season train wreck in suitably spectacular style, giving it up quicker than a prison bitch and losing 8-1 to the Marlins. It was a classic choke job, the kind where the last-place team scores seven in their first at bat, while the first-place team leaves a boatload of men on base early before phoning it in late.Do they fire the GM, Omar Minaya, for not assembling better pitching? Do they toss Willie Randolph for failing to manage the Mets to one more win? I've got the easy solution. Fire them both.
I see it like the Lloyd Carr thing at Michigan. Fiasco. Debacle. Season over on the first day of September, followed the next week by getting completely owned by Oregon. You can't bring the guy back, unless they beat Ohio State by 50.
Same thing goes for New York. Except it's two guys. And it's a different sport. And it's pros instead of college. But it's the same thing.
Epic collapses in baseball aren't the best way to sell people on your new stadium coming in a couple of years.
Did I mention my Chargers lost? Again? Yeah, me and the Futon Of Love are going to see the passing of a lot of cheap beer to get over that. The Chargers hired Norv Turner. I'm still in shock here.