Don't get me wrong. I think the organization has done a lot of things wrong. Keeping batters like Matt Stairs up here is inexcusable. But Stairs has very few at-bats in which to suck. Players like Cora, injured LaRoche, and Lannan making regular appearances has far more to do with why this is a lost season.
The fact that everyone knows this and yet harps on Stairs anyway is a tacit admission of the extremely low expectations we have of this franchise's management. Everyone knows that the other stuff you mention isn't going to be addressed. We can at least hope that a 5-failure player like Stairs is insignificant enough to be dumped.
