Along the branches of the Cicere family tree, some have had a tougher time letting new roots spread.
I was a huge fan of Buck Showalter. I still am. He’s probably among the top three people in the history of the world that I’d like to have beer with, and when I say have a beer with, I mean like seven. As one of the last “old school” archetypes to see his way out of baseball, he showed us that a baseball guy can still make instinctual baseball decisions, and things can still turn out OK.
But that isn’t baseball anymore in 2019, and some of the elder Ciceres have had a harder time accepting this circumstance.