Once you accept that the BF.net community will only be happy if our manager is a cyborg constructed from Earl Weaver's brain, it's easier to just gloss over these threads. All managers do dumb things sometimes. I'm not going to defend the Kotsay decision, I hated it as much as the rest of you. Personally, I'm giving RR a long leash because he comes from the Scoscia coaching tree, the players responded to him and I feel like first-time MLB managers need some time to "grow into" the job, even if they've managed at other levels. Edit: not sure why I thought Weaver was dead. Really hurt my cyborg hypothetical.