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Following a Cards club that was quit after a season long glut of injuries and dashed hopes is bad enough...but at least I'm not a Brewers fan:

The Milwaukee Brewers fired manager Ned Yost on Monday in the midst of a late-season slump that has jeopardized the team's chances of making the playoffs for the first time since 1982.

Third-base coach Dale Sveum will become interim manager for the remainder of the season. Bench coach Ted Simmons was reassigned to an advisory role.

"This was a very difficult move to make, and we appreciate all of the work that Ned has done to develop this team into a contender," general manager Doug Melvin said. "In the end, this was a collaborative decision made to put our club in the best position for the final two weeks of the season."

The Brewers share the NL wild-card lead with Philadelphia despite losing 11 of 14 in September, including seven of their last eight. Milwaukee was idle Monday.

Whatever the problems with the Brewers were, Yost wasn't one of them. (Is Doug Melvin the problem? Probably, but the success of the Sabathia deal is his "get out of jail free" card, at least temporarily.) I cannot imagine how such a shakeup at such a point in the season will lead to positive results, and I would certainly be happy today were I a Phillies or Astros fan.

There will be no joy in Mader's this season. (Unless you order the schnitzel.)

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