Blame has to start at top

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If their names weren't Donnie Walsh and Larry Bird, we'd be calling for their heads. If one wasn't a saintly presence with a long record of success, and the other wasn't Larry Legend, the official state Bird of Indiana, we'd be running them out of town.

Instead, the Indiana Pacers CEO and president get the benefit of the doubt. It's all Jamaal Tinsley's fault. Or Marquis Daniels' fault. Or the fault of the club manager who kept sticking his face in the way of people's fists the other night during an incident at the 8 Seconds Saloon on the Westside.

Well, no more.

It's time for the Pacers' owners, the Simons -- Herb and Mel, or Mel and Herb if you prefer -- to hold Donnie and Larry's feet to the fire, demand accountability for what has become a joke and an embarrassment of an organization.

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