Category — Boston Celtics

An interesting week for NY sports and sports in general.

First off, too bad the Lakers couldn’t dispatch the Celtics. Obviously, any NY fan is going to cheer for the team playing Boston in any championship. The Lakers never seemed like the better team in this series though and were totally outplayed. Check out this Celtics Championship gear if you’re a fan.

Next, Tiger Woods is out for the year after winning the US Open in a spectacular playoff. So many people were watching the playoff that the volume on the NYSE dropped 9% during the broadcast. The loss of Tiger is very unfortunate for the PGA because it will take away a lot of casual golf fans like me, but if there’s any upside, it’s that it will allow for some of the sport’s other great players to steal some of the limelight.

But the biggest NY sports story recently has been the firing of Mets manager Willie Randolph. For the record there were other dismissals in addition to Randolph–Rick Peterson and Tom Nieto. You’ll remember from my post a few weeks ago that I thought Randolph was on a short leash, and I’m not surprised they axed him what with the Mets under-performance this year and rumors spilling out about how indifferent the players were towards him as a manager (not to mention his poor treatment of the media). But what was a surprise was how poorly the Mets organization handled the dismissal. 

What did Omar Minaya and the Wilpons achieve by firing their manager in the middle of the night when he’s on the west coast? If anything it generated sympathy for Randolph in the very media that despised him only a day before he was fired. The move can almost only be seen as a massive dis on Randolph–they just couldn’t stand him anymore. But if this was the case why did the organization lend its “full support” to him a month ago in a highly-publicized press conference. For a funny send-up of all this check out this Daily Show clip of the firing of Willie Randolph.

Meanwhile, the Yankees keep beating up on weak National League teams and are now 5 games over .500. Let’s hope they can keep this all going despite losing Chien-Ming Wang for a month so so.