Right–which is more or less the point I’m trying to make.

Yogi Berra, besides having more rings than God, was at Normandy. He is a hero in every sense of the word. But he has never been above criticism.

Girardi has fewer rings, and for various reasons, has less heroism points to his credit, but he, like Yogi, is a good man, but he, like Yogi, is not above criticism.

I have defended Girardi fervently throughout this year and last, and give him every benefit of the doubt. But he has done and will do things worth questioning, and deserves to be criticized when he does so.

However, criticizing him for his baseball judgement is different from judging his honesty, his integrity, his humanity. But those things ought to have been above criticism long before he played the good Samaritan yesterday.