I'm the biggest Ned basher around, and he needs to quit doing dumb stuff, but is it possible that the comeback was due to his leadership? The game was a microcosm of the season. Get down, come back with a lead, get WAY down, come WAY back defying odds, get down AGAIN, come back AGAIN and win. The level of personal belief that team has is incredible, and Ned deserves the credit. Let me tell you, the Tigers or the Angels do not come back the way the Royals did.
It might be possible that the building of confidence that Ned has done for the team was worth the ineptitude as a tactician.