YOST FIRED

should have happened when he blew it last year. Yoost has to be a bottom five manager in baseball. Addition by subtraction.

drago wrote:should have happened when he blew it last year. Yoost has to be a bottom five manager in baseball. Addition by subtraction.

Yost is getting the boot because our young players are playing like choke artists. For 14 games, Braun, Hardy, Fielder, and Hart are all hitting under .200. We scored 10 runs in 4 games in Philadelphia, and that certainly wasn't Ned's fault. Yost has made some questionable moves, but is he really all of a sudden a different manager than he was in August in which we were a major league best 20-7?

Like almost every major league manager, Yost doesn't understand or employ sabermetrics in his managerial moves. There are probably only 4-5 good mlb managers, the rest are just given praise as being "good baseball men" or "good motivators" But Ned gets a ton of blame in the area because people don't like his personality.

I can only hope that the Brewers stop their trend of hiring people from the 1982 team to fill important roles up and down the organization. I would love for them to think outside the box and hire a manager who understands the complex statistical methods that often define how games play out. I think that "Nervous Ned" did a good job in bringing us to respectability, but maybe the playoff chase is a bit much for him. He did a much better job than people give him credit for, but milwaukee fans never let facts get in the way of their insane arguments. I do stand behind this decision if the organization hires a competent staff for AAA and our major league levels next year. Hopefully this move shakes things up and we can get on a run.

And finally, this move was obviously sent down straight from ownership. Melvin is the most loyal GM in MLB. There is no way he would hang a manager out to dry like that without Attanasio forcing him too. I think there is a good chance that Melvin might be out as GM after this year.

I totally agree and it was only done, just as the other huge moves that were made this year and last to shake things up, draw attention to the brewers, and hopefully make the playoffs even if it means it ending in a 4 game sweep. This firing was going to happen after this season anyways (unless a huge playoff run was made) so why not do it now and hopefully start a fire under the brewers ass and if not atleast it gave the brewers alot of publicity and showed we did everything in our power to make the postseason. Even if it might not have been the right move. But then again we have made alot of those wrong moves. I wont even waste my time typing those out.

I hear you train, but i think it's a damn good move at the time because something needs to change and it needs to change now. We are now tied for the WC and fading fast. It worked for the Mets earlier in the year in firing their skipper.

Something needed to happen at this point, i just hope the hire the right guy for the next season.

They looked better last night. Unfortunately, losing by one is the same as losing by 10.

What needs to happen is for Hart and Braun to stop choking. Braun is 1 for his last 30 and is clearly pressing. Hart's OBP is falling quicker than the housing market. Does anyone remember their at-bats last night? They were automatic outs. If they struggle tonight, I would like to see Sveum really open up the lineup for tomorrow afternoon in another move to try and spur this team on.

I saw one at bat for each. Hart looked like he wanted to get out before he even grabbed the bat, Braun can't stand on two fee without toppling over. It's like they are reverting back to their first couple days of playing baseball.

I"m surprised they remembered to not piss themselves on the field and seemingly were using toilets without much trouble.

we play the cubs 5 more times... we're doomed!!!