This message board defaults to "fire the manager" the same way lazy sports talk shows lean on "Pete Rose in the Hall of Fame". Ausmus MAYBE cost the team an opportunity to win twice this season (which is way different than saying he caused them to lose). Harvery, Allen, Noe, Cahill. . . it's not his fault they can't pitch. You don't seen Allen or Noe in high leverage situations and he can't cover up both Cahill and Harvey with bullpen games. You tell someone to bake a cake with a turd and it's going to taste bad. There's no sense in critiquing how he makes the butter cream frosting.
Jury is out on Ausmus. Maybe he sucks but there's no way you can say he's the reason this team is 5 games under .500.
A MUCH bigger discussion should be going on about what the hitting staff (which Ausmus hired) has done to La Stella.