I don't know what I'm doing!

I don’t know what I’m doing!

When you’re in charge of a large organization (sports or otherwise), it’s always good to speak in absolutes. Ruben Amaro, while praising the job Ryne Sandberg has done, sounded more like a kid who got caught going into this parents’ liquor cabinet:

“Obviously we don’t want to cultivate a culture of losing. We obviously want the very opposite. For me it’s about having guys understand what it takes to win, and trying to play winning baseball. We might be a little challenged as far as overall talent at the major league level right now, but that doesn’t mean we can’t play a winning-type of baseball.”

Or, “We really, obviously, want the opposite of losing, and if we try to do the opposite of losing, even though we might be not really kind of great at doing so, we just might be able to kind of maybe play that type of baseball.” Or, even easier, “We’re a bad baseball team and it’s all my fault.”