I think that the odds are pretty good that whoever becomes the next manager of the Brewers (be it next year or 5 years down the road) is going to get the same treatment that Yost is getting now. Every fanbase does this with their manager...you'd be hard-pressed to find a fanbase that is completely happy with their manager. There are Cubs fans who think that if Lou Piniella wasn't their manager, they'd be 10 games up in the division. The Brewers could hire the greatest manager who ever lived, and some people would still complain about him when it's the players that screwed up. To be fair, though, Ned doesn't seem to do a very good job of putting his players in favorable situations, but some of those decisions seem forced -- no one disagreed with putting Turnbow in to start the 8th, but he didn't get the job done...Yost had to scramble to try to get someone through the 8th inning, and Pence's L/R splits said that he'd be more likely to get a hit off Shouse than Aquino. That was a no-win situation, IMO.