Brewers Fire Yost

[Project Grudge]

Ned Yost was dismissed today. Go! Cubs! Go!

[El Supremo]

1. What????

They are tied for thee wild card spot. He must have done something very naughty.

[mduffy31]

3. This is what he as done

For the second time his team is totally falling apart at the end of the season and the owner and GM have had enough

[underpants]

4. Some background-still quite amazing

The roots of this unprecedented managerial firing go back beyond the doubleheader sweep dished out by the Philadelphia Phillies last Sunday - back to last year. The Brewers had an 8½-game lead in June, but finished two games behind the Cubs and Yost was ejected or suspended four times in that final week. This season, despite being 16 games over .500 going into last night and tied for the lead in the wild-card race, Yost's Brewers had lost 11 of their first 14 games in September and had torched what had been a 5½-game wild-card lead over the Phillies on Labour Day. Last year, Yost and Johnny Estrada had a dugout altercation. This year, it was two players, Manny Parra and Prince Fielder, who went at it.

Melvin called the decision to fire Yost "collaborative," but it seems to have the mark of owner Mark Attanasio, one of those get-rich-quick money managers who has probably had better two-day periods, what with the markets and his baseball team.

Attanasio raised the Brewers' payroll to more than $90-million and signed off on a trade that sent his organization's best prospect, Matt La Porta, to the Cleveland Indians for C.C. Sabathia. With Sabathia and Ben Sheets due to walk away as free agents and the team in the middle of a year where it set a club record with 41 sellouts, Attanasio has rightly read this as his window of opportunity.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080917.BLAIR17/TPStory/Sports

[mduffy31]

2. Let me say this

THANK GOD