Romo Phone Home: The soft bigotry of lowered expectations

In the spring of 1983, Pirates reliever Enrique Romo failed to report to camp. Attempts by the team to locate the enigmatic righty failed, and he was released. Similarly, for 20+ years, Pirates fans were unable to locate their once-proud franchise. This blog, last seen in September 2006, was the record of one father and son who nurtured the hope that one day Romo and the Pirates would phone home. That day arrived seven years hence, and now we are back. Enrique, we salute you, wherever you are.

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

The soft bigotry of lowered expectations

The skipper defines success down:

The Pirates are 14-31, but Tracy spoke -- for the first time this season -- about diminishing the importance of the team's place in the standings.

"We're making strides," he said. "We have to not involve ourselves with our won-lost record, but with staying with a process. We have to keep putting ourselves in position to win games. Those are going to go our way, eventually."

We will...stay with a process.

1 Comments:

Anonymous said...: Excellent. Now when I'm talking baseball with my friends at school and they bring up our dismal record I'll be able to retort, "Yeah, but we have a process."

That should put an end to any discussion.; 10:27 AM