Ok, I admit it. I howled like crazy when the Reds hired him. I thought it was a hire they totally botched. I couldn't believe that we had a supposed upcoming team of young pitchers and players who had the potential to be good, and we hired who? The guy who ruins young arms? The guy who plays over the hill utility type of veterans instead of young studs. Who needs that Canadian, when you have Scott Freaking Hatteberg. And even if he DOES play the young guys, he can't make out a lineup to save his life....come on man, CF and SS bat 1 and 2. Catchers have to bat eighth, it's a rule, can't have their slowness "clogging up the bases". I still complained about him, after winning seasons in a row, after making the playoffs. He was holding the team back. He can't manage a bullpen, and for god's sake............WILLY TAVERAS AND COREY PATTERSON. Drew Stubbs 1? or 2? You can't play Ryan Ludwick........it's the end of May, and he's batting .200, are you kidding me? What? Leave Chapman in the pen? No way, he's Randy Johnson, I KNOW it! Wait, who's playing SS twice a week? Valdez? Hang on, Votto's out for 3-6 weeks? And we're playing Cairo? Not a chance...........can we tread water until he comes back? I just want to be withing striking distance of the Pirates when he's finally back.........please? Play the veteran at 3b? He's washed up, nothing left in the tank. Let's get him to retire at the break. Frazier needs to play every day. Wait, it's the middle of September? Our guys are fresh? The Cards are weary and beat up? Pittsburgh who? Didn't we just run over them like a runaway freight train? Maybe he does know what he's doing. I'll shut up now.