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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho
There's truth in this. Ned gets no passes for a few reasons:
1) He's not tactically consistent. He goes by his gut rather than having a pretty solid thought process and sticking with it. One time he'll drop the sac bunt in the key spot late in a close game. Another time he'll have his guy swing away. It's akin to being a blackjack player who constantly changes his mind about hitting on 16.
So because Yost flip-flops his decisions around based on his gut, there's no sense of reasoning, and his decisions become harder to defend when they go wrong.
2) Which leads to the biggest problem for Ned... he's an arrogant dick who treats people in the media like shit, and who condescends towards the fans really badly (not very Christian of him!). We've seen this with a lot of people, but his treatment of Andy McCullough really stands out.
As a friend of mine says: "You can be an asshole and be good at your job, and people you work with will tolerate you. You can be a nice guy and be bad at your job, and people you work with will still tolerate you. But if you're an asshole who's bad at your job? You're gone."
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You may be right on the higher level, but I always got the vibe that Andy and Ned were just yanking each others' chains.