1.   Assenmacher inherited a mess.

2.   Both will inherit a mess.

3.   Brown inherited a mess.

4.   Closer Norm Charlton inherited a mess Mike Jackson created and, despite walking two batters, recorded three outs before the entire bulge was blown.

5.   His one bad foreign stumble so far was in Somalia, but, lest it be forgotten, he inherited that mess from George Bush.

6.   To be sure, the Clinton administration inherited a mess.