That’s because it was long overdue.

The only miscarriage of justice in the firing of ex-Brewers manager Ned Yost on Monday was that it didn’t happen sooner. Yost had to go for many reasons. He didn’t know when his players should hit or bunt, pinch-run or stay put, warm up or come out.

Yost was an uninspiring mixture of ineptitude, apathy and whiny sarcasm rolled into one routinely overmatched ex-catcher turned-manager. He should have reshuffled his starting rotation to ensure CC Sabathia a start at Philadelphia - the Brewers’ true danger - as opposed to starting him at Chicago, a team clearly out of reach.

But that wasn’t why Brewers general manager Doug Melvin - presumably at the strong urging of owner Mark Attanascio - finally fired the skipper.

It was because it’s easier to do it with 12 games to play and a season on the brink, as opposed to after the Brewers might have captured Milwaukee’s first post-season berth in more than a quarter century.