I grew up playing baseball. Loving baseball. Eating, sleeping and dreaming baseball. So opening day is a big deal for me. On opening day, the manager of the Kansas City Royals, Trey Hillman, screwed up big time. The Royals lost the game, probably because of Hillman's brain freeze. I won't bore you with the details, but trust me, 100 out of 100 people who knew ANYTHING about baseball would have played it differently.
But that's not the problem.
The problem is that Trey Hillman wouldn't say, "I was wrong." When he was asked about his questionable decision, he got testy and more or less refused to answer. He could have said a lot of things that would have been OK. Things like:
"As it turns out, I wish I would have done something else."
"I really screwed the pooch on that one."
"I had a gut feeling - must have been the burritos."
Really. Almost any form of "I was wrong" would have been cool. But, apparently Trey Hillman couldn't be wrong. Even when the whole world could see he WAS wrong.
My point is: If you can't say, "I was wrong", you can't lead. Oh, you might keep your job for awhile, but you can't lead because no one will follow. They see you. They see you're human. They see your mistakes. So when you refuse to admit those mistakes, people think you're a liar. And people don't follow liars. End of story. End of rant.
