WHENEVER YOU find yourself searching for somebody to blame, a good piece of advice is to take a long, hard look in the mirror and hope somebody is standing behind you. If not, look somewhere else. At some point, you will realize that it is probably your parents' fault, and you can get on with your life.
Take, for instance, the current state of our sports teams here in the city of Philadelphia. I don't want to say it's the worst it's ever been, but pretty soon Cleveland will be walking around with its chest puffed out. The Phillies are at least 3 years away from being something other than a travesty; the Sixers are still climbing out of the wreckage of the last regime; and the Flyers are coming off a season in which they suffered 11 shootout losses, one of them to "Frozen on Ice.