The Rockies' winning streak comes just after the firing of Clint Hurdle. Doubtless the Broncos and Avalanche hope for the same results.
None of the recently departed managers and coaches intended that any of their players and teams not do well. They wanted to win. They knew their jobs depended more on results than rhetoric.
The newspapers covering the teams didn't try to conceal their failings, and wouldn't try to conceal the impact of the following kinds of events:
A Hockey team that is perpetually on the wrong end of a power play can play exciting hockey for a few minutes, but eventually they will lose. Often they will lose badly.
A Football team with a center who repeatedly tries to trip the quarterback by stepping on his feet is going to lose more often than it wins. Usually it will lose badly.
A Baseball team that tried to play with two outfielders would have some pretty big alleys and a lot of scoring, but little success.
The media would get the word out, and after a while, the fans would stop coming. Everyone loves a winner and even a loser that tries to win. No one loves a loser that is content losing.
No owner would tolerate keeping a coach or manager who actually tried to lose.
How different Republican politics are.
When you hear the term "the base," you might think that the people in that group must be the most reliable Republican voters around. Actually, they are the least reliable. They have no values that stir them but one, and the target of their wrath are most often their own teammates.
We actually have a group of Republican office holders who have publicly announced that they would rather lose than seek a majority that included people with different views. Worse, they act on that premise.
And the same media that is so eager to report on sports coaching follies wants to be a player in all of this, wants to help the part of the party that is set on losing.
Check your pocketbook. Sports is illusion. Politics is reality.
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