Gardy on my mind

So the Twins had their games Saturday and Sunday cancelled due to snow.
That gave me plenty of time to stew over their extra inning loss to the Kitties on Friday.
I have to admit, I continue to wonder if this team isn't in danger of having chances of a title lessened by their manager's stupid decisions.
Gardy, for his part, is a great manager in many ways, after all he's won 3 straight division titles.
But that is because his strenght lies in motivation, babysitting, the whole "team chemistry" thing.
And that's an underrated part of the job when you play a 162 game season.
After all, that's why they're called managers, not head coaches.
Tom Kelly was, in my opinion, the best in baseball when it came to running a game. Pitching changes, lineups, matchups, bunting, stealing, etc. - there was nobody better.
But TK struggled at times to get along with his players, so obviously both men have their strengths and weaknesses.
But Gardy is really making me nervous.
First there's the whole Corky Miller thing.
The Twins sent down Terry Tiffee, even though the guy can play 1st and 3rd, is a switch-hitter, and has proven that he can hit major league pitching.
Miller can play one position, catcher, where we already have 2 good catchers, (Mauer, Redmond) and an emergency catcher (LeCroy). That's all you need.
Not only does Miller play just one position, he is also not a viable bat off the bench, and has proven that he can NOT hit major league pitching.
He's 1 for his last 46. That's an average of .023. The average pitcher in the National Leauge hits .159. I checked.
Tiffee not only shouldn't be sent down, he should be pushing Michael Cuddyer for the 3rd base job right now. Cuddy is off to a poor start, and threatening to bench him in favor of Tiffee might be what it takes to wake him up.
Another thing starting to concern me is Shannon Stewart vs. Lew Ford. As in who should be in left and who should DH.
Now I know somedays LeCroy DH's, and since Stewie is arguably the team's most complete experienced hitter, he'll have to be in left on those days.
Fine.
But, as he showed on Friday, he has arguably the worst throwing arm in the league. Inge was still 3 miles from home when Stewie let go of the ball, and by the time the throw made it home, not only had INge scored but there was a pot of gold sitting where the throw landed.
Also Torii Hunter has suggested recently in interviews that Stewie is having a tough time getting a jump on balls in left at the Dome.
It has long been said by everyone from Kirby Puckett to Shane Mack to Danny Gladden that left field is the toughest place to play in the dome due to the lighting and the bullpen and etc in the corner.
Well if that's true, put Jacque back there, because he didn't have many problems when he was there. Then put Ford in right.
Stewie needs to be the DH. Not only is he a liability in the field but he's injury prone. DH'ing him probably gives him another 100 at-bats this year.

I could go on about Gardy leaving Mulholland in, or pulling Joe Mays last week after only 70 pitches, or a bunch of other things - like the lack of progress for so many young hitters, but the fact is the list of questionable decisions Gardy has made is getting long.
It kind of scarily reminds me of when Bob Brenly was managing Arizona. They won a World Series, based solely on what their players did.
The TV guys openly speculated on the air that Brenly was intimidated and overmatched by Joe Torre on a national stage, and even when Arizona won, an open debate took place on whether or not Brenly was baseball's worst manager. After he had beaten the Yankees in the World Series.
So, basiclly, just because he has 3 straight titles doesn't exactly make Gardy a modern day John McGraw.