Friday, June 02, 2006

Lasorda's dove

Gene Collier wrote a gentle, dovish lecture urging Tracy to not spare the rod and spoil the children.

People regard loyalty like it's a prime good. Not so. There is good loyalty and there is bad loyalty. The Pirates have a bad loyalty problem. They curl up in their little cocoon of a mutual admiration society. They don't come out. They remain far too comfortable while the team falls far, far below .500. Oddly patient in many wrong places, they stand in the pouring rain for a week or two expecting sunnier weather.

Now they've won six of seven after losing four straight. And they swagger like conquering heroes. Is that right?

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