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When a talented baseball team gets off to a poor start, the manager is almost always the first person to be blamed. Like Willie Randoph, Ned Yost oversaw a second half collapse in 2007 followed by an ugly start to 2008. And like his counterpart in New York, people are starting to call for Yost's head. Like most people that are oblivious to the world around them, Yost isn't worried.

"The thing that matters is that the people who know the game understand what's going on," said Yost, who was being skewered on radio shows and message boards. "You're not going to make everybody happy. There's no way.

"You have to know in your heart that you're doing everything you can do, that you're not cutting any corners. My entire focus is on the players and this organization. It's not productive (to listen to the critics).

Regardless of whether or not Yost is a bad manager (I'm fairly certain he is), he's certainly on the hot seat right now. The Brewers probably should've won the NL Central last year and they should at least be in contention this year. When teams underachieve, the first person to hit the chopping block is almost always the manager. The manager's an even more likely scapegoat when he's as unpopular with the fans as Yost is. Unless the Brewers turn this thing around fast, he's going to be gone by the All-Star break.