Word: rah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like my rah-rah, "Go Terriers!" friend from B.U. said to me last Sunday after the Beanpot death scene, "Hey, that wasn't anything resembling the team that almost beat us in December...
...There's nothing phony or hypocritical about being a rah-rah," says the spirited coach. "People try to knock the Harvard image, and if they can do that through the basketball program, they will. But we're not gonna give them the chance, because there'll be nothing in this program to knock...
When the Dodgers went into the ninth inning of their third play-off game against Philadelphia trailing 4-3, the long season and all of Lasorda's rah-rah boosting of his team finally paid off. Vic Davalillo, fleet-footed salvage from the Mexican League, bunted safely. Manny Mota-told in the spring that his responsibility was pinch-hitting because "when you open your suitcase, four hits fall out"-doubled off the wall in left field. A flurry of Dodger hits and Los Angeles was one game away from the pennant. Asked what had been his instructions...
...after all that, the New Yankees got into the World Series and seemed to say to themselves, "Well, we did it. Now let's settle down and play some ball." And they did; they stuffed the rah-rahs down Tom Lasorda's throat and, for a change, undisputedly...
Part of the answer is the simple fact that Scalise just isn't a "rah-rah" coach. "He's more low-key than some people," Hank Leopold explains. "He's a quiet motivator, maybe not even a motivator at all to some. But that's the way I like it. I'm a quiet player, but that's the atmosphere that makes it easiest for me to get the job done...