TooLive, I completely agree with your post. Yost made huge fundamental managerial errors and oversights tonight. In spite of which the brewers were still able to nab one of their best wins this season. Imagine this fanboard, or even JS if any of these senarios play out last night. 1. Mota implodes. His command wasn't there. He hadn't pitched in a long time. He got lucky. How could Yost possibly justify pitching him in this game. Myself, like i am sure many others on this board, thought he was gone when soup returns. Now i don't know. If we were going to use him in a game like last night, wouldn't it have been benefical to let him pitch with one of the big leads we had over the weekend? 2. Pujos beats us. How can you pitch to this guy with the game on the line. I understand the next match up with ankiel wasn't favorable either, but no way would i let Albert beat me in the ninth. 3. Torres gives up two runs in the 10th. Imagine the difficutly of explaining the decision to let him hit to the media. Although yost wouldn't, (he'd come off with some snide dismissive remark). The guy hadn't hit in 3 years and he walks him up there with a runner is scoring position. I didn't list the lack of defensive substitution and use of gagne, both of which are very questionable of debatable decisions. I guess this goes to show how minimal an affect a manager has when players perform. ------------------------- Moderator Note Several posts in this thread have been move to a new one: Yost: Rickie's "doing fine," but has "never achieved" --1992casey -------------------------