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Oh, reeeeally...so making sure that Randy Johnson was available tonight wasn't his call?

It was his call, but what took him so long. He left Schilling out there to long to give up the go ahead run. When there Anderson, Witt, Morgan, Bautista left in the pen. And why was Johnson still pitching after the 5th inning yesterday, because Brenly is a idiot. The Yankees were not going to come back yesterday. Brenly knew that Johnson would probably have to pitch today because Schilling was not going to go 9, and his best bet would be Johnson. And he left them out out 2 innings to long.

First, Schilling wanted to go back out and unlike the other night, Brenly listened. I understand what you are saying and it is a good point about getting RJ out early yesterday. However, the big non move tonight by Torre was having the middle not play at least halfway to double up Gonzo. Irony is Torre had them back in game 5 and Soriano makes that play up the middle. If the infield is back, Jeter camps and there are two down. Of course, it is fun to speculate on all the 'ifs'. I changed in the 8th who I wanted to win. I snapped and decided the Yanks had won enough.

He left Schilling out there to long to give up the go ahead run.

Right. Brenly should've been afraid of letting Schilling pitch to a fearsome slugger like Soriano.

When there Anderson, Witt, Morgan, [Batista] left in the pen.

Uh huh...and if Brenly had brought in one of those guys, and the pitcher had thrown a gopher ball to take the DB's out of the game completely, you would have somehow retained respect for that decision? Or even better -- you would have thought it was a good move to bring in Johnson on zero-days rest if his first pitch was blasted into the right field spa? It is to laugh.

If Byung-Hyun Kim had gotten either of the third outs in Games 4 or 5, people might have been whispering wondering why Stupid Joe Torre continued to send David Justice to the plate when he might as well have been swinging a badminton racquet up there. But Justice's strikeouts didn't end up hurting the Yankees, so Torre got away with his faith in him. Brenly's faith in Kim -- and the law of averages that was overwhelmingly in Kim's favor -- wasn't rewarded with victory, so people like you say he's stupid.

It all comes down to this: When a team gets to a single game for all the marbles, there is going to be one move a manager makes that everything turns on, and the loser will be a jackass in the minds of many for the rest of his life.

This time, the loser is Torre, but he will not be called a loser out loud because (a) his teams have dominated the Series the past half decade, and (b) he is too beloved by the New York-dominated media majority to straddle the blame.