I could easily just continue the theme from below, on how the late night/early morning firings made little to no sense, pointing to many of the same reasons mentioned by Gal below, and that will be mentioned by others here and at other pro Willie sites.

Instead I’d like to question transaction #2. Putting Jerry Manuel in charge. Now I supported Willie as manager, but whether you did or did not, replacing him with bench coach Jerry Manuel makes no sense. They have pretty much the same style, which since they’ll be working with the same players, seems like it would result in the same results. Hey, you want to say the team is underperforming and its time to shake things up with a new manager, then at least make sure that new manager is someone who might actually do something new. At least in the short run we know it’ll be someone from within house, but we have the AAA man Ken Oberkfell coming up, promote him. Or HoJo. Or Tim Tuefell. All who at the very least would bring about a different style. A different style manager with the same players could in theory produce different results, but Jerry Manuel will not. It’ll just be a continuation of Willie-ball, but now with out the one thing keeping Ollie from being completely useless (the Jacket).

Unless a move is made, soon, to put a manager with a truely different style in charge, I see no way Randolph’s firing will produce any better results than that of Rick Down. If anything, all it does is move the pressure seat to Omar’s office, and increases the chance we’ll see a Met fire sale in July.