Saturday, September 16, 2006
'Sometimes loyalty can get in the way'
Has Jeremy Jacobs experienced a genuine late-in-life epiphany or merely undergone a temporary Oprah moment? Anyway, he indirectly criticizes his decision to keep Harry Sinden around for so long and seems to realize that loyalty really is an overestimated virtue:
I can think of more than a few pols whose loyalty litmus tests also do more harm than good. ... Sincere or not, Jacobs is all but saying his leadership wasn't good enough. There is no Curse on Causeway Street. Just bad ownership. There was no Curse of the Bambino. Just bad ownership.
Has Jeremy Jacobs experienced a genuine late-in-life epiphany or merely undergone a temporary Oprah moment? Anyway, he indirectly criticizes his decision to keep Harry Sinden around for so long and seems to realize that loyalty really is an overestimated virtue:
I have to be more aware. Loyalty is something all of us should have, but sometimes loyalty can get in the way of the right direction to take. ... We have to balance where our loyalty is, what’s the best long-term interests or short-term interests of the club. I think that’s an important thing going forward. I think if we had moved more aggressively earlier, we wouldn’t have found ourselves in the funk we did. ...
Just the whole organization. ... You have to stay young, you have to stay aggressive, you have to be aware. In all sports, at the end of the day, you have to have an answer, win or lose. When you start speaking in a vague sense, you’ve lost the objective.
I can think of more than a few pols whose loyalty litmus tests also do more harm than good. ... Sincere or not, Jacobs is all but saying his leadership wasn't good enough. There is no Curse on Causeway Street. Just bad ownership. There was no Curse of the Bambino. Just bad ownership.
