I don't guess that either Mark Attanasio or Doug Melvin is waiting for me to weigh in the issue, but here I come just the same.

I think it would be a mistake, not a colossal mistake, but a mistake nonetheless, to fire Ned Yost as manager of the Brewers.

Now, I can just hear the dunderheads of sports talk radio in Milwaukee throwing cans of Hawaiian Punch against the glass window of their studios, screaming at the appearance of another idiot.

I can't even begin to count how many coach/manager changes I've been through as a journalist, spectator and fan. But, I do know it's in the hundreds. And I can't even begin to count the number of times the switch resulted in the kind of immediate turnaround fans demanded.

In the last 10 years the Bucks have had five coaches. A new one every two years. Not a lot of playoff success there.

In the 10 years since they moved to the National League, the Brewers have had four managers. No playoff appearances.

Attanasio, the team's owner, met with reporters this week and told them that he doesn't see the kind of ongoing analysis of baseball managers when he reads the New York and Los Angeles papers. First of all, he should know that the words "New York" and "Los Angeles" when uttered in Milwaukee are going to cause people to shout back at him "WE HATE NEW YORK AND LOS ANGELES." But the fact is, he's probably right.

Reading some of the blogs and listening to the talk shows and reading the papers, I am astounded at the second-guessing leveled at Yost. Just as they accuse him of micro-managing, they are equally guilty of micro-criticism.

On one hand, he gets blasted for always playing the percentages. On the other hand, his critics climb all over him for being anti-percentage, i.e., right hander Kevin Mench going against a right-handed pitcher in the ninth inning and grounding out on a first pitch.

No matter what Yost does, and it almost seems like it doesn't matter if the team wins or loses, someone is going to lob criticism at him.

Basically, I think Yost has done a fairly decent job managing this team. He took a bunch of youngsters who didn't even know where to get a good steak in most major league cities and guided them off to an incredibly hot start.

In a perverse way, that may have been his undoing. People actually began to think the Brewers were that good.

Most people who really know something about baseball weren't fooled. It was fun and it was exciting and we all loved it, but it was a fantasy world, not reality.

The reality is that the Brewers are a young team with holes that still need to be filled. They are clearly better than they were last year. They have two budding stars at the corners in Prince Fielder and Ryan Braun. The catcher they signed hasn't produced the kind of offense they had hoped he would. The pitching staff has some positives and some negatives.

The reality is that the Brewers are probably a .500 team, maybe a few games better.

And because they play in the weakest division in baseball, they find themselves in the middle of a pennant race. Or maybe we should call it a "pennant stagger."

If all these critics think that firing Yost is going to do wonders for next year's version of the Brewers, they ought to come up for air. We don't need revolving doors. Let's get another couple of pitchers, one more good hitting outfielder and let's let our kids become one year older.

That will do far more to make the team better next year than firing Yost will. No doubt about it.