To follow up on Bones's disgruntlement, below: Tracy's not alone with this sort of comment. McClendon used to say the same things about not being a player.
Bones is right that the context now, for Tracy and Littlefield and McClatchy, is the team's utter failure to be competitive, as reflected by the win-loss record. We don't want excuses. We don't want to hear about how close the games were. If the Pirates were "in" most every game, the record would be much closer to .500. If the win-loss record does not reflect a perception of being competitive, then the perception is a mirage. Until the team admits that, it's hard to be optimistic or even sympathetic.
We're more or less waiting for Tracy to take some of the blame, to be candid and honest about some of his mistakes. Until then there's no great love or patience for him.
He's not the only "leader" who thinks it is good "leadership" to never admit a mistake, but this does not excuse him from adopting this morally bankrupt and cowardly position. Tracy should not manage the team like he's running for office or heading a political party. That's beyond stupid.
We would like it if Tracy would come clean and admit a whole shitload of mistakes he's made. Surely he has made a whole shitload of them. The team is 15-33 for crissakes. We probably only see some of them. "I should not have made fun of Oliver Perez's dancing ability two hours before that one start," he might say. Or, "Damn, what crack was in the coffee that I drank right before I sent Jose Hernandez in to bunt with the game on the line?"
What are they going to do -- fire him? Bwa ha ha ha. He has more job security than most managers around the league.
The Pirates need to stop running the team like an amateur campaign for Congress. Until they start telling us the truth, they can't expect us to regard their comments as though they were credible.
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