Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Ned Yost

The Brew Crew lost their fourth straight last night, 3-0 to the Marlins. Milwaukee is 3-7 in their last 10 games, have an overall record now of 16-16, and have dropped to fourth place in the NL Central, 5 games behind St. Louis. It all seems like this is the beginning of an unraveling for the Brew Crew, which brings up a couple of questions:

1. Will Ned Yost be fired before the end of the season?

2. Should Yost be fired?

Here's one website that is actively calling for Yost's removal.

I'm not sure if Yost will be fired, especially before the end of the season. He seems to have a good relationship with GM Doug Melvin, and Melvin is one of the more conservative GMs out there. If Milwaukee finishes the season with a below-.500 record though, I could definitely see Yost being shown the door.

If there is one definite factor going against Ned Yost, it should be his friendship to Larry "the Cable Guy." At a recent home Brewer game Yost invited the "comedian" to entertain the team, and then he allowed Larry to take batting practice at Miller Park. Is it too early to talk about "The Curse of Larry the Cable Guy?"

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Curse of the tofo. Somebody cook Prince a steak!
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Ardent Moss said...

Interesting point…As soon as I found out that Prince was going veggy, I remember saying that if he gets off to a slow start, everyone will blame his diet. I don’t think his slow start is a direct result of the new diet, and I don’t believe in superstitions…but baseball is one of those sports, where if something’s not broke, you don’t need to fix it…Prince should just go back to doing everything the same way he did last year (even if that means getting Culverized!)

Anonymous said...

He should start with his starting pitchers. Eat two or three of them just to send a message. Too soon?
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Anonymous said...

He should start with his starting pitchers. Eat two or three of them just to send a message. Too soon?
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Ardent Moss said...

More like two soon.