In the wake of the Yost-Canning (and the Bloginental Blogress), these are the Truths I hold to be Self-Evident:

1. That Mark A. -- and pretty much only Mark A. -- was behind the shite-canning of Nedly Yost. Forget that "collective decision" business.

2. Dougie Stache didn't want this to happen. I was almost taken aback at how not-on-board-with-the-call his press-conference remarks seemed. There was no way he was going to say anything that was openly defiant, but his hesitance to say anything strongly in favor of it was really telling. (To the question of "Why now?," Dougie said, "That's a difficult one to answer myself.")

3. Consequently, you have to wonder if Doug's gig is also in jeopardy over the offseason. The resistance on this issue with Mark A., and Doug's inability to build a decent bullpen, could hurt him in the end.

4. At one point, J.J. Hardy was in the anti-Yost camp, but somehow he was won over. (from MLB.com: "I liked Ned," Hardy said. "I think there were guys that didn't and some guys that did, and I think that's the way it is with every manager on every team. I think there are a ton of players around the big leagues that are playing for managers they don't like."

5. Contrary to what Ryan Braun said, an anti-Yost camp DID exist within the team. My guesses? It included Bill Hall, Corey Hart and Rickie Weeks. Yost may have protected his players to a fault in the media, but the dick-headedness and condescension that defined most of his interaction with the press had to carry over at least a little bit into his dealings with his players -- and I doubt it went over real well.

6. The "Nervous Ned" stuff that Johnny Estrada threw out after he left Milwaukee was very real. (Hardy, from MLB.com again: "Whatever he did, I feel like a lot of players were thinking that way, that it was a nervous reaction.") Estrada is still a lazy piece of shite, but he wasn't lying about the players' lack of faith in Ned's crunch-time baseball IQ.

7. The anonymous Brewer who told ESPN it was time for a change could very well have been Mike Cameron, given that the writer who got the quote (Amy Nelson) did a feature on him earlier in the year.

8. If this had been done earlier in the season, Skaalen would have been out the door with Ned. You're not really going to bring in a new hitting coach, with new philosophies, with 12 games left. At this point the only goal of personnel changes is, as Dale said, for "the shock factor." Skaalen is guaranteed to be gone after the year is over, and probably Maddux along with him. Ed Cedar is too good at fist-bumps/shin-guard collection to let go.

9. That Yount coming back into the fold doesn't mean he's going to make a long-term commitment to coach in the Brewers system. Sveum said that Yount was his best friend. I see this more as a favor than a return-to-the-family situation.

10. That CC, not Sveum, is going to end this losing streak on Tuesday night in Chicago. As for what happens after that, I have a good feeling. I just wonder how long it will last.