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It must have been difficult for Omar Minaya, who relishes aggressive trade discussions, to watch baseball’s other big-market teams consummate headline-stealing swaps.

The Mets have won 14 of their past 17 games, including three straight, to vault into first in the division, and their lead grew to two games over the Phillies and the Marlins,

Aramis Ramírez broke a scoreless tie with a three-run homer in the eighth to lift Chicago against the Giants, and a veteran scout has been linked to a betting probe.

In an interview, Willie Randolph said “shabby” wasn’t strong enough of a word to describe how the Mets treated him.

The Mets’ General Manager struggled to answer why a decent baseball man had to effectively be dragged through the street before finally being let go.

Willie Randolph is still the manager of the Mets, who won two of three over the weekend against Texas, and began a series against the American League West-leading Angels.

For the Mets, the process of firing or not firing a manager has become an unsightly display of weakness and a public embarrassment.

Two months into the season, Omar Minaya, the general manager of the Mets, did not expect the $138 million Mets to be so skittish.

The Mets’ general manager said the team based its decisions about how to handle Ryan Church’s concussion on regular consultations with Church and the team’s medical staff.

Infuriating as it was for Willie Randolph to hear his job status discussed as if he weren’t in the room, the session was no Memorial Day picnic for Omar Minaya either.