Things aren’t going so hot for my beloved Orioles (we’re now five games under .500) and Manager Sam Perlozzo is taking a lot of heat. And, if the quotes from today’s WaPo write up of yesterday’s 6-4 loss to the Blue Jays is any indication, he’s beginning to feel the pressure. To wit:
“I think that if you feel like you haven’t put your people in the right places, then you should worry about your job,” Perlozzo said. “I don’t feel that is the case. I feel like if anybody knows anything about baseball, they’d know that any games that we lost, our setup guy and closer have been in at the end. You got to have some common sense or knowledge about the game to realize what’s going on out here.” (Italics mine)
Now this is of course pretty much true…but still. You don’t like to see your manager basically throwing two of his players under the bus. Chris Ray’s confidence is shaky enough as it is. Continuing:
“When you manage a team, you are going to have some people that might not like you,” Perlozzo said. “If they can’t perform because they don’t like me, then they can’t be very good people. Whether you like somebody or you don’t like someone or you support them or you don’t, a lot of people come in here to see people play. You have no right in this world not to give 100 percent out there, no matter who is in charge.” (italics again mine)
Again, this is all true…but not very well put. Its probably not going to endear Sam to people if he starts implying that people with complaints aren’t good people.
Now I don’t know what to think about all this. Its not like if someone else was the manager we’d be a game behind the Red Sox or anything. I mean, firing Sam doesnt change the fact that Patterson can’t hit, Mora looks washed up, Gibbons is now our LF and Huff is, well, Huff. Having said that, I think Sam is on his way out. And he knows it.
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