This is going to sound cruel but at the end of the day we are talking about a guy who is bullpen filler on what is at best a .500 team. Yeah it sucks getting lied to but Stearns is not in a position to have guys on the roster just to be nice to them. His job is to gather assets and build a champion. Period. End of story. I think people that feel this type of situation somehow makes Milwaukee a less attractive place for free agents are entitled to their opinion, but most free agents aren't coming here anyway and I sincerely doubt it will prevent the Brewers from signing a guy to an extension. You want to compare him to Theo? When Theo took the Cubs job, they had a sit-down with the manager. They asked him about every single guy on the team and every single guy in the high minors. Then they canned him the next day (more or less) and hired someone better. Thems the breaks.