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Column: Andy Green’s fate sealed by Padres’ second-half collapse

Sez Me …

That Padres commanders fired Andy Green Saturday was about as big a shock as the team’s 9-0 loss to Arizona on Friday night — the amazing thing being they weren’t no-hit.

After all, this is a baseball organization that fired manager Alvin Dark during spring training.

The wonder was in the timing, the pink slip being delivered with eight games remaining.

Surely, General Manager A.J. Preller and bosses Ron Fowler and Peter Seidler didn’t have to low crawl through a miserable — terrible, horrible — September to decide Andy isn’t the guy to manage them into contention next year — or, just what year is it now?