People are imperfect, even people who rise to significant levels of personal accomplishment.
Regardless of how good, how talented, how insightful or how experienced a person becomes throughout the course of their achievement, it’s simply human nation to retain, and even develop, certain biases, ticks and habits.
I just wrote a one-sentence lede. That happens to be one of mine.
For Pirates manager Clint Hurdle, one of the things he’s developed over 43 years in professional baseball is that being a productive bench player in the majors is really, really hard.
Hurdle should know. In his 10 seasons as a player in the majors, he started more than a third of the schedule just twice.