Everyone in the country is hammering the Mets because of the shabby way they handled the dismissal of Willie Randolph and rightly so. I find it exhausting at this point and I know its because I care about the team that I root for and the way it is viewed. We are a laughingstock right now and that makes me sad. With that said, let the beating continue. Here are some thoughts from ex-Mets manager Jeff Torborg, who spoke on XM’s Baseball this Morning with Mike Patrick and Buck Martinez.

“To this day, I don’t know if the Mets know quite how to fire their managers…I was fired at home, but I had not spoken to the general manager for four days prior to my firing…he originally would come down every night…when I was fired, I came to a host of cameras, it was suggested I come in through the bullpen, I said, ‘I’m not going to go in through the back door here..’ I woke up that morning listening to the news that I had been fired…I was not flown across country, I was attacked [by the media] outside Shea Stadium…It’s unbelievable to me…Willie has an impeccable reputation, Captain of the New York Yankees, that’s really something special, then a trusted coach for a number of years, now he takes the Mets and does, what I thought a terrific job…”

Via MLB On XM