FIRE...

[Willets Point]

Lots of talk of firing people around these parts. Here's your chance to be the hatchetman.

[Centerfield]

I voted for Jerry, Omar, Wayne and Cora. I'd only fire Jerry and Wayne if I had a better candidate in mind.

Cora has to go because the team stands to save money by cutting him. Omar has just not done a very good job. In my mind, he deserves it the most.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Manuel, Hojo, Warthen, Hagin, Cora, Perez, Wilpon the Younger. (I'm firing at a .389 rate!)

I'd reassign Minaya to a scouting assistancy, should he accept.

[TransMonk]

Jerry Manuel
Omar Minaya
Howard Johnson
Dan Warthen
Wayne Hagin
Oliver Perez
Alex Cora
Jeff Wilpon

[metirish]

My lunch wasn't the best so I fired all the coaching staff except Hale.I then fired Castillo, Rodriguez , Ollie and Alex ...oh ,and Omar

[MFS62]

I voted the usual suspects (mentioned in posts above) plus the wilpons.
I want to see Mikhail Prokhorov buy the team.

Later

[batmagadanleadoff]

Unless you kill the head, every other firing will eventually regenerate into the same old shit.

[Gwreck]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Unless you kill the head, every other firing will eventually regenerate into the same old shit.

Exactly. Omar has to go, immediately.

[metirish]

Gwreck wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: Unless you kill the head, every other firing will eventually regenerate into the same old shit. Exactly. Omar has to go, immediately.

I think he meant Wilpon( and I think you knew that)

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

MFS62 wrote: I want to see Mikhail Prokhorov buy the team.

I predict this would lead to a much higher-- and simultaneously, much lower-- class of owner jokes.

[Gwreck]

metirish wrote: I think he meant Wilpon( and I think you knew that)

Oh, is that what he meant? I never considered that, seeing as how you can't fire an owner...

In all seriousness, the Wilpons have shelled out plenty of cash for payroll/draft signings; unless you believe the conspiracy theories that Jeff is pulling all the strings, I don't see them as the ones at fault. The Madoff stuff is distracting but the payroll is still very high and I don't see how their investment is insufficient to produce a contending product. I see the GM as the one responsible for taking that cash and using it properly.

[Ceetar]

my 'other' was for the negative pissy fans that annoy me. I want to fire them, preferably by firing squad.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Gwreck wrote: metirish wrote: I think he meant Wilpon( and I think you knew that) Oh, is that what he meant? I never considered that, seeing as how you can't fire an owner..

If you can't fire a Wilpon in this poll, then perhaps the poll-master should remove the Wipon name from the choices. I didn't realize that this was such a serious poll that all because of us, the top vote-getters would be receiving actual pink slips at the close of voting.

I will now withdraw all of my votes being that in real life, I don't even have the clout to get the third dishwasher at CF Shake Shack fired.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Gwreck wrote: In all seriousness, the Wilpons have shelled out plenty of cash for payroll/draft signings....

And another thing ......

You don't know that. Unless you know how much they're making, and how much they're spending in relation to what they have, ... how much they could spend, you're just guessing. The issue isn't simply how much money the Wilpons have spent, but how much money they can comfortably afford to spend.

Edited August 3, 2010 by Guest

[seawolf17]

Everyone -- including all Wilpons -- except Chip, Wayne, Frankie, and Edge.

Chip can stay; I like having a guy named "Chip" around. Wayne's bad, yes, but he'll get better, and the radio guy doesn't really matter anyway. Frankie can stay because he still has trade value. Fire him? No. Trade him? Yes. Edge can stay because we need his witty banter.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I was already counting on my severance pay.

[Willets Point]

Aw, who voted to fire Edgy?

[Guest Edgy DC]

[Gwreck]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Gwreck wrote: In all seriousness, the Wilpons have shelled out plenty of cash for payroll/draft signings.... And another thing ...... You don't know that. Unless you know how much they're making, and how much they're spending in relation to what they have, ... how much they could spend, you're just guessing. The issue isn't simply how much money the Wilpons have spent, but how much money they can comfortably afford to spend.

You are correct, I have no idea how much they can afford to spend. But I can compare their spending to other MLB teams, including those with more recent success than the Mets, and realize that they are spending comparable amounts or more.

[Gwreck]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Gwreck wrote: metirish wrote: I think he meant Wilpon( and I think you knew that) Oh, is that what he meant? I never considered that, seeing as how you can't fire an owner.. If you can't fire a Wilpon in this poll, then perhaps the poll-master should remove the Wipon name from the choices. I didn't realize that this was such a serious poll that all because of us, the top vote-getters would be receiving actual pink slips at the close of voting. I will now withdraw all of my votes being that in real life, I don't even have the clout to get the third dishwasher at CF Shake Shack fired.

I think you missed the joke.

[Willets Point]

Yes, this whole thread is a joke intended for cathartic purposes only.

No one will actually lose their job as a result of the voting in this poll.

Except for Edgy, and that will be for spending too much work time on the internet.

[Zvon]

I don't think I have to say who I fired.
Didn't think it possible, but they are up there, so I fired em.

If spending money was the best thing an owner could do, I would not have fired em.
It's not.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Wanting the team's ownership to change isn't an indefensible position, by any means.

Wanting the team's ownership to change because they don't spend/authorize spending enough is.

[Fman99]

I voted for all of em. Send em all packing. No offense Edgy, you were in the line of fire.

[Guest The Second Spitter]

Willets Point wrote: Aw, who voted to fire Edgy?

That was the only option I selected.

[Vic Sage]

Fman99 wrote: I voted for all of em. Send em all packing. No offense Edgy, you were in the line of fire.

ditto.