Are you kidding us? Let me guess, you'd trade a playoff appearance for a losing season just so Baker will get canned, right? Brilliant strategy. We're not going to the playoffs this year, barring divine intervention. The worst thing that could possibly happen would be for the team play just well enough to linger on the periphery of the WC race and allow Dusty to keep his job. There is no playoff berth on the line anymore. The worst case scenario is Dusty comes back and we have to watch this garbage in 2006. With a team this streaky, they're never out of it until you are really out of it. By the same token, nothing is garaunteed unless it is mathematically impossible for anything else to happen.