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... am glad you clarified for those just joining us, though.
Between your first post and this one, that's pretty much how I had it pictured mate. 
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Figgins got used to being a semi-marquee leadoff hitter, went through the heady FA recruiting dance, undoubtedly saw himself as sacrificing plenty already to bat #2 and play second ... and the losing, the terrible season on his own part ... "guilt" isn't a bad way to put it, "humiliation," whatever.
It explains why Zduriencik sees Figgins as far from a lost cause.
Some guys are fine if you get them in the right context.  Get them in the wrong one and you've got problems.  Milton Bradley is an example, hey, 20% of the guys playing for that matter.
Figgins in 2010 has been an unfortunate match for this situation -- in my view, a major part of the problem for a 100-loss club that threw in the towel late April.  In 2011 he could be fine, depending.
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Wak thought that Figgins would accept the chewing and he guessed wrong.  I wish that Figgy would have taken it, but as we all know, a diseased situation is going to show symptoms somewhere.  If it hadn't been that, it would have been something else.