Managing Losing

Old Wahoo isn't sure Manny Acta is the best role model (after all, his Washington Nationals are 14-36 and owners of the worst record in baseball after Tuesday's victory over the San Francisco Giants), but I like the perspective he showed in this column by Thomas Boswell in last week's Washington Post. Failure can tear you down if you let it, but one failure doesn't mean the end. We have more than one act in our lives, or some mumbo jumbo like that, and I think that's applicable to these times, at least for me.

Boswell writes that some of baseball's greatest managers (Casey Stengal, Miller Huggins, Joe Torre) bounced back from horrible starts to their careers. 

Still, there's no guarantee that Acta will become a Hall of Fame manager or World Series winner, as I'm sure any Nationals fan (if there are any) would say.