McNeil as we've noted before has had his head up his ass all year, basically. As mentioned the other day in the game thread he looked upset at Rojas for not making a show of lending support during the fake-HBP incident. I did not hear what the booth thought of that, I had the sound down. Rojas seems to say all the right things and keeps his cool which are positives, but I'm not impressed yet with his passion or ability to consistently rally these guys. I thought the combo of a rookie manager, a never-managed-before second-in-command, a rookie pitching coach and an absentee hitting coach was a potentially disadvantageous arrangement from the start and the play of the team (not crisp, not creative, pissed off, some guys seemingly unable to arrest the struggles, and making the same mistakes over and over) suggests that is the case, too. Green overconfident GM and stupid owners too.