New Yorkers To Fired Willie Randolph–It’s All Good

When people learned that Mets’ GM Omar Minaya fired Willie Randolph yesterday, the response of most people was to shrug. It’s not like it was that unexpected. But when they got into the details of it, those shrugs quickly turned into a chorus of “wow, that sucks.” Of course, being in New York, Randolph’s exit garnered a lot of media attention (we didn’t see this much coverage of when the Mariners fired their GM Bill Bivasi last week), so the New York Times decided to ask people–including the chief of the LAPD–what suggestions they had for the harshly dismissed manager. “Don’t get stabby” seemed to be the consensus.

William J. Bratton, the former New York police commissioner who is now the chief in Los Angeles, advised leaving “gracefully.” He also said, “One door closes, another door opens.” The dust-up with then-Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani that led to Chief Bratton’s resignation in 1996 —“I left before death by a thousand cuts” — also led, eventually, to the job in Los Angeles.

Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth — “I’m the only person who’s ever been fired twice by Donald Trump” on “The Apprentice,” she said, adding, “as if once wasn’t enough”— called Mr. Randolph’s dismissal “cold-blooded.” Her advice? “Take lemons and make a glass of lemonade,” she said. “He needs to serve it up icy cold, because that’s exactly what they did to him when they fired him at 3 in the morning.”

Annabelle Gurwitch, the editor of “Fired! Tales of the Canned, Canceled, Downsized, and Dismissed,” said Mr. Randolph’s departure from the Mets “is a good-news story for him.”

Uh, yeah. You know what would’ve been a better-news story for him? Not getting fired.
Hey, Willie: Trust Us, Being Fired Is No Big Deal [NY Times]
Image [USA today]