That’s a year over due

this should really screw the Brewer clubhouse up down the stretch. I’m suprised they didn’t let him finish out the season — afterall, his team is still very much in the race.

Yost is a terrible manager, but two weeks before the season ends? Dale Sveum, longtime Brewer favorite, is the 3B coach who will take over.

Firing your manager with two weeks left to play and still in the race isn’t going to do much for their players confidence. Not that I’m complaining but they are throwing in the towel.

Right move. Wrong time.

and it was clearly rubbing of on the team. Firing a manager this late in a pennant race seems pretty desperate but I wouldn’t be surprised if this has a good effect on the team for the last two weeks.

Not because he is a good manager, but with two weeks left, they put the team in even more upheaval? Wow, until the end of the season, with the way their playing, it is not far off.

Yost needed to go. The team was demoralized and spent and Yost had lost them. Rather than worrying about how bad this would look this late, he made the move and hoped for the best.

Sveum might not be any better, but they were absolutely going in the wrong direction with Yost, and it didn’t sound like he could right the ship.

was behind that firing ( i assume Senor Mustachio himself) has the biggest set of balls in the world. i don’t think it’s bad to get rid of him , as i didn’t think much of him myself, but the timing….damn….makes you wonder how high the heat is on others in the organization.

This is at best three months overdue; probably more like a season. And yes, if you’ve gone this far with a manager, you have to give him till season’s end to fix his mess.

God help them if they somehow miss the playoffs.

to turn things around. The Brewers are by no means done, especially with
6 games left against us and 7 1/2 games out of the division.

It goes to show you the level of confidence (or lack thereof) that upper management
had in Yost to guild this team into the playoff backdoor.

I had a pretty strong feeling he might be let go, but not like this.

I agree with Melvin’s comments that this was what was needed for the team this season. According to all reports Yost had become extremely tight and this was rubbing off on the team. This happened last year, too. I frankly liked the baseball values he brought from his time on Bobby Cox’s staff but clearly he was too intense. Perhaps he’ll learn something form his time with the Brewers and be able to be a more successful manager or coach elsewhere.

The thing that people need to realize is that if the Brewers do not make the playoffs this year the team is going to look very different next year. While not a full scale rebuild, the team will be remodeling. Without making the playoffs Sheets and Sabathia are likely gone (and this likely will happen if they make the playoffs). Rumors are already swirling that Fielder, Weeks and Hardy are going to be on the trade market.

So the GM realizes that the best chance to make the playoffs is to fire the manager and hopefully give the team a shot in the arm. He probably should also realize that if he had given Yost a few decent relievers it never would have come to this.

DmL

This is nuts, there in the midst of a heated Wild Card race, and they do this?

Bye Bye playoffs, bye bye to any slim chance they had to resign CC

but like everyone else, it sure seems like the GM is throwing in the towel.

I think they might be hoping the team responds positively and rides that into the playoffs. It is a weird and crazy move but I don’t think they are giving up. Just like it was stated above, this team next year is not going to look anything like it does now. So, they are shaking things up right now & hoping it somehow stops the slide that they have been on.

I don’t think Yost was ever in control and if he was never in control and you as an organization knows that then really you have put your team in a situation where no matter what happens the players won’t be blamed. If they don’t make the playoffs blame the organization, oh well they have obviously not produced in awhile. If they win well everyone’s happy and you still get rid of Yost who you should have gotten rid of along time ago.

has a great article as to why Yost had to be fired: Sheer incompetence.

He also asks if we Cub fans are done panicking yet and tells the Astros that they’ve got no business complaining about playing the games in Milwaukee.

that he insisted on something his way, wouldn’t budge, and the Brewers were forced to fire him. They can say all they want about how they are trying to shake up the team’s mojo, and actually make it to the playoffs. I don’t believe it for a second. Firing the manager with 12 games to go, when you are tied for the wild card lead, is a desperate move, not one that any solid MLB organization would do. The quotes from Melvin that he feels that he gave up on Yost, when Yost never gave up on the team- smacks of a lie designed to save face for Neddly boy.

I read the comments on bizzaro BCB & they think the firing is great. It’s desperate, not a sound move, and it doesn’t surprise me a bit.

It’s a long shot, true, and it’s also the only real chance they have left. Playing as they are lately, they’re not going to catch the Cubs, and maybe they’d even fall out of Wild Card contention.

Only time will tell – still looks to me like the “all or nothing” of a gambler cracking under pressure.

…comments in the media justified it, but other then something like that or some other unacceptable embarrassment to the club, then this makes little sense. Did Melvin think that the true level of play for their talent was .900 ball? Now I don’t feel bad at all for worrying when the Cubs slumped. Pinella may have had somewhat strong words in public for players who wee not performing but it seems that Melvin’s actions are desperation. In part to ignite the team and in part to demonstrate that he did something?

Maybe the one thing we can all take from this is that if we face the Phillies in the playoffs we are likely to get smoked if they keep it up?

.. that when the Brewers’ management asked Yost point blank the other day about why the team was playing as horribly as they were, he said verbatim “I don’t know.”

At that point, the shoe dropped it seems. If Yost was that clueless and said as such, he cut his own throat .. perhaps its providential that they didn’t figure this out a month or so ago. The Brew Crew is in full panick mode and they are going to try to salvage this mess if they can.

The thrashings of desperate people on a team with no little talent can be dangerous, and nothing should be assumed yet. There’s no telling what can happen yet. This has been one whale of a ride this year and it ain’t over until the end of the month. And a lot can happen.

And three games from now, our destiny may be once again in our own hands.

Argh … should have subbed to MLB.TV!!!