Last night was spent, first, watching the World Series, and then, trying to get a volunteer live chat guy at Firefox to help me figure out why it won't keep me logged in to websites when I close it down and open it back up. Didn't work, by-the-by; spotty internet kicked me out of the chat window, and when I tried to get back in it was closed for the night. Any tips?

What I would really like to talk about today (other than Jeter doing the dumbest thing he's ever done on the field, on which I guess I don't really have anything to add anyway) is how Girardi got away with another one. Or two. Skippering the runaway best team in baseball lets you get away with a lot of really, really dumb mistakes, like benching a good catcher for a bad one or benching a good "slumping" player for an end-of-the-bench player whose whole career has been a slump.

But the computer troubles have left no time for blogging. Luckily, prior to the game, Dave Cameron said most of the stuff I would have said, but better. So read that and pretend I wrote it.

The important thing to remember to me is: decisions like that are always dumb, no matter what actually happens. If Molina had gone 4-for-4 tonight with the game-winning home run, it still doesn't make sense to claim the move "worked." If you hit on 19, the fact that a 2 comes up doesn't make it the right move to have made. Likewise, had Hairston gone 0-for-5 with 5 Ks and given the game away with an error in the 9th, it's no good to say "I told you so." Anything can happen in one game, for better or worse. Managerial decisionmaking is about giving one's team the best chance to win that game, before the fact. And regardless of the ultimate result, Girardi did pretty much the opposite of that last night. Again.