I know the Willie Randolph thing has been written about to death, but his firing just makes me resent the way baseball organizations are run. Randolph was simply the manager of the New York Mets. His influence, in all reality, is minimal on the record. His job is to manage the employees and do his best with them. It is the personal in this case who did their best to become disappointments.

I am tired of seeing owners use the excuse that it is more economical to fire a manger than release a guy making many more millions of dollars. I understand the precarious position all sports teams are put into. They sign players with idea that they are ultimately taking a risk on somebody’s future performance.

Why not just say that. Say that while Carlos Delgado is stinking up first base at Shea Stadium that management believed he was capable of playing at the levels he occasionally achieved with the Blue Jays and that the front office thought the poor season with the Marlins was an aberration.

The reality is that they took a chance on an inconsistent hitter and he did not pan out. The first season he wowed you with his 38 home runs, but since then he has been a struggling hitter occasionally providing power. There are cases of that throughout the Mets’ roster and really ever roster in Major League Baseball.

Just say that you thought a change was needed to motivate the players who you have an incredibly expensive binding contract with. We all may no it, but just recognize it. Honesty is always the best policy and New York and Randolph really deserved that much more than a 3 a.m. firing.

Ultimately every sports fan and every sportswriter saw through the public relations trick and the already struggling Mets looked really bad just before the All Star game. The sad reality is that if the move works we will all be praising the efforts of Jerry Manuel as he plays in the World Series and will have forgotten the cold moves by the front office.