To be honest, I don’t know what else there is to say.

The Mets handled Willie Randolph incredibly wrong.  There is no doubt about that.  Randolph definitely should not have his job anymore and Rick Peterson absolutely had to go.  But not like this, not while New York was asleep and not in the middle of a road trip against an excellent team like the Angels.

Nice work by Fred Wilpon to completely throw GM Omar Minaya under the bus by saying that both the timing and the decision was Minaya’s and no one else’s.  This is, of course, asinine because no owner worth their salt wouldn’t have a say in such a decision.  Former Mets GM Steve Phillips even went on 1050 ESPN Radio to say, in essence, that Wilpon’s statement was a load of crap.

Then there is the sewer sludge that spews forth from Hank Steinbrenner’s mouth.

After his starting ace Chien Ming Wang hurt himself running the bases he referred to the National League as 19th century baseball and told them to get with the 21st century.

Despite the absolute idiocy of his tirade, I have a theory.

Its very possible that Steinbrenner made such obviously idiotic and inflammatory comments to keep the spotlight off of his team that hasn’t played well for much of the year.  The Yankees are under constant pressure by the New York media, and perhaps this was a ploy on his part to deflect that pressure onto him.

I sincerely hope that is the case, but it remains one of the dumbest things uttered by a baseball man in certainly my lifetime.

This is a very difficult town to make sense of, even if you grow up here and learn everything you know from New York first-hand.  One usually thinks of New York as a big market and the big market attracts the best minds and voices of the game and yet, some of the strangest things come forth from this city.  Michael Kay has a job here, Suzyn Waldman has a job here, Max Kellerman and Brian Kenny, though I find them both bright and likable, are perhaps two of the biggest homers on radio anywhere, constantly using fancy language and that famous term “comparative analysis” to convince listeners that the Yankees are the best team in baseball all year every year.  Perhaps the most egregious was Kellerman’s proclamation that Mariano Rivera is the best player in baseball is the best evidence of this.

And, of course, we have the Steinbrenner family here, who are never shy about sharing their opinions on things.  We also have the Wilpon family here, who are perhaps the dumbest family to own a baseball team in the last fifty years.  It is both frustrating and mystifying on one hand, yet on the other hand, it is all gold for a writer such as myself.