Ya gotta layoff the cheese steaks, they are clogging the oxygen supply to the brain.

Brenly pulled Schilling because he thought he was gassed. Evidently Kurt always wants to stay in even when he says things like "don't leave me hanging". Leave him in and forget about having him available to start game 7. Brenly thought strategicly and decided not to stake the whole Series on a tired pitcher. Kim made Brenly look like a genius for 5 of the 6 outs. Brenly didn't make a bad decision, it just didn't work out as planned.

The D'backs lost some battles, but won the war.

How come the Yankee manger doesn't get criticised for over using Rivera and under using Hitchcock among other things?

IIRC the World Series is the first time this year Schilling pitched on 3 days rest. So, maybe in Philly where they weren't concerned about making the playoffs little on the Series, he pitched on 3 days rest all the time. Ya got anything to back up your contention? I believe his pitch count was 88 or less when Soriano hit a homer off him in game 7.

Before game 4 the Yankees had never won a WS game when they trailed going into the 8th inning. It was also something like 50 years since any WS team had been able to overcome a 2 or more run deficit in the 9th inning.

Brenly played the odds by bringing in Kim. It was actually a conservative call. Keep in mind that Brenly didn't have a quality middle reliever to bridge into his closer like the Yankees did, although oddly no one questions why they didn't use him instead of over using Rivera. As a result he had no choice but to bring in Kim or risk the entire series.