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  <title>Why Willie was fired at 3 a.m.</title>
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        <body>Omar fired Willie as soon as he'd cleared it with the Pope/Vatican; see 10 Spot/Willie's hiring circa 2005</body>
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          <display-name>BKJ - no 10 Spot, no peace!</display-name>
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        <body>Jesus McNazareth??</body>
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        <body>You can imagine what PED is making the rounds through that locker room.
Caveman HC6 | 06/17/08, 02:17 PM 

spread by the slumpbuster</body>
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        <body>Funny story, my real surname is McKay, but I didn't think it was distinctive enough. &amp;quot;McEntegart&amp;quot; is my blog name.
The 10 Spot | 06/17/08, 01:35 PM 

So the Ten Spot should really be called &amp;quot;The Real McEntegart&amp;quot;.</body>
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        <body>ltl's up</body>
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        <body>&amp;quot;Willie fired, Wang hurt&amp;quot;
Skooter23g | 06/17/08, 02:17 PM 

Over use injuries????</body>
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        <body>'Yank's Wang injured'.
Rickapolis-Bard of Who's Who
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You can imagine what PED is making the rounds through that locker room.</body>
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        <body>Unless he took a skate to the neck.</body>
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        <body>By the way, remember the line about 'Pandas eat shoots and leaves', and how a comma makes all the difference? How about this headline yesterday: 
'Yank's Wang injured'.
Rickapolis-Bard of Who's Who | 06/17/08, 02:15 PM 

&amp;quot;Willie fired, Wang hurt&amp;quot;</body>
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        <body>A hockey player would never be on the injury report short of death (himself) or some goon knocks him unconscious for the rest of the game.

Tko27 | 06/17/08, 02:13 PM 
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Actually they would refer to being knocked unconscious as an &amp;quot;Upper body injury&amp;quot;</body>
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  <body>&lt;p&gt;The Mets finally canned manager &lt;strong&gt;Willie Randolph&lt;/strong&gt; late Monday night&amp;nbsp;-- or more specifically, early Tuesday morning. The move wasn&amp;#39;t unexpected but the timing was. The team sent out a press release announcing the firing at 3:15 a.m. ET this morning, about three hours after the Mets beat the Angels 9-6 in Anaheim.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another head-scratcher is that the Mets allowed Randolph to travel crosscountry with the team for the start of this West Coast road trip, only to fire him after one game (and a win at that). Ouch.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Of course, Mets ownership&amp;nbsp;-- especially would-be-king &lt;strong&gt;Jeff Wilpon&lt;/strong&gt; -- had its reasons. Here are some of the explanations for canning Randolph in the middle of the night:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;10.&lt;/strong&gt; Determined to prove that &lt;strong&gt;Hank Steinbrenner&lt;/strong&gt; isn&amp;#39;t the only nutso baseball owner in town&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;9.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Wanted Willie to have the&amp;nbsp;frequent flyer miles&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;8.&lt;/strong&gt; Desperately chasing another high once &lt;em&gt;Last Call With Carson Daly&lt;/em&gt; ended&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;7.&lt;/strong&gt; Paid off by &lt;strong&gt;David Stern&lt;/strong&gt; to make NBA start times look reasonable&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6.&lt;/strong&gt; It was the only way to top an historic collapse for sheer ineptitude&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5.&lt;/strong&gt; Ordered by the radio waves transmitted from &lt;strong&gt;Mr. Met&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;#39;s giant noggin&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4.&lt;/strong&gt; Had vivid dream in which newly invigorated Mets won 3 out of 4 (wait, they actually did? My bad)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3.&lt;/strong&gt; It was either that, or buy a &lt;strong&gt;Chuck Norris&lt;/strong&gt; Total Gym&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2.&lt;/strong&gt; Waited for those smug tabloid jackals to put their papers to bed for the night&lt;/p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1.&lt;/strong&gt; Only time &lt;strong&gt;Tiger&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;#39;s not on TV</body>
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