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When a team goes south, a managerial tongue-lashing may provide new direction-or perhaps it will take a trade, or luck, or patience... or maybe there is no answer

Seems this would be a good time to point out the unwritten guidelines to a good, salty, managerial treakout, the sort that sure is popular these days. A proper tirade should come unrehearsed, an unforeseen reaction to a reasonable question or notion. The 1993 telephone-tossing, tape recorder-flipping meltdown byRoyals manager Hal McRae -asked innocently about using George Brett as a pinch hitter in that night's game-is a perfect example. It should have an erratic quality, like the 1983 classic by Cubs manager Lee Elia, ...

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