When
Ned Yost got the phone call from GM
Doug Melvin asking for a meeting yesterday morning, he admitted that for a moment his job flashed before his eyes. From
Tom Haudricourt of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
"I said, 'Are they going to fire me?' I said, 'No, not with 12 games left,' " recalled Yost, who has a year left on his contract.
But when Yost entered Melvin's room and owner Mark Attanasio was there also, the message was clear.
"When I saw Mark, I knew that was it," he said.
The Brewers have been simply awful since the start of September -- they've lost 11 of 14 and have five regulars under the Mendoza line -- but Yost still thinks he received a bum deal:
Asked to sum up the situation, Yost said, "It's the nature of the business but it's gotten a little strange. Two bad weeks (and you get fired)."
What Yost is forgetting, though, is that the Brewers have gone through more than two bad weeks, at least when you consider their performance down the stretch last season. The Brewers led the NL Central by as many as 8 1/2 games last year and still managed to miss the playoffs. If he couldn't stop the slide in 2007, why should Melvin and Attanasio have thought he could stop it this year?
