I heard it 'said' yesterday on MLB Sirius radio network: "Pro baseball managers today must tell there players ahead of each game about lineup changes." The former major leaguer speaking stopped short of saying modern players MUST be coddled but the implication was loud and clear.
Check the date...it is the year 2017. Re-read my opening paragraph. This is who we are as a nation...we are people of entitlement. We have softened our expectation of American generations and arrived at a place unfamiliar to me. Today, if we don't get our way or a least given gentle strokes of explanations, we are victims and where there are victims there are perpetrators and perpetrators should be held accountable...accountable for withholding that which somehow 'belongs' rightfully to the victim.
True story...
It was 1955. Sixteen year old Mel was not being groomed as a starter at the basketball season's beginning. At the family supper table, victimized Mel began venting and complaining about the "unfairness" of his coach. Mel's father stopped his oldest son in mid-sentence and sternly admonished his son simply saying, "Boy, if you don't like arrangements around your sport life then you need to do some thing to change it."
That generation of parenting and the accompanying philosophy is dead and long discarded. The result? Today's sport coaches must explain 'why' the little leaguer and the highly paid professional is not playing. Today's leaders who find public accounts of their leadership unflattering reference those reports as 'fake' and other high ranking government officials caught in repeated lies testifying before Congress insist at day's end, "I told the truth."
Simply stated..."It ain't my fault...I'm a victim."
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Poor Me
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