i do not think it will do any good for buck to explode. these bunch of guys called baseball players are only there for a paycheck.i wonder if buck isn't second guessing himself for accepting the managers job.if there is a way to lose a game they will find it and make a bunch of excuses for themsleves.

When does Mr Baseball realize that his only job right now,is to put a solid HR and RBI guy in the middle of that lineup?
That is his only job. One job. One thing to do to change the performance of the entire team.
Explore every single option to do that.
Without that, this is what you get.

And while we're at it, Accardo is exactly the type of player that the Grow The Arms strategy is supposed to save you from overpaying and signing. A FORMER closer who spent most of the last 2 years at AAA, and for what looks like good reason. They spent a million bucks on a middling middle reliever hoping that he returns to 3 year old form. Who does crap like that? I know, it's only a million bucks. But it's the principle of the thing. When you do things like that you make a statement: loud and clear: My strategy for the most part is a failure.

When you think about it, you didn't need to go looking for anyone of the Accardo caliber-you already had him.Matt Albers. And you didn't like him and let him walk.

And who isn't tired of the "we need to play better" malarky. We know you do. So when do you think you might want to start? August? .

It's time for Buck to explode but also to take some of the blame. Where are the fundamentals with this team? And this guy who supposedly "doesn't mind pushing the envelope"? Not starting runners with the history of double plays this team hits into? As for Reynolds, how many runs has he given away with his pathetic defense? When you take those away from his RBI total the net probably doesn't justify playing the guy.

Andy McFail is to blame here...he brought in Reynolds, Lee, Vlad, Arcado, Gonzo, kept a fading and injury prone Roberts around....Instead of buying quality free agents Andy follows the Angelos tradition of scraping the bottom of the barrel when it comes to free agents...Blame Andy for the low quality of free agents he brings in....still waiting for him to buy at least 1 decent bat.

Peter can you please start a petition to sue the Orioles organization for impersonating major league players.

surprise surprise a Reynolds error cost us another game... his blistering .200 average makes up for that though...great move McFail

I used to get mad, but now just laugh. I cannot take this team seriously. It is like a sitcom where we are the character that just cannot get things right-kind of like Barney Fife from the Andy Griffith show.

Pete in bucks 3 previous stops his reputation was that he was a control freak. All that i know is he turned those 3 teams around very quickly and won there.Before he took the orioles job people with knowledge of what was going on in the industry INDICATED THAT HE had changed and was more laid back.Well pete i certainly wish he would go back to being the buck of old, becaue this laid back approach isn't working with this team. When he came on board last year and finished 34 and 23 i believe the players steped up there game because they wanted to make a great impression and were scared of there jobs. But i don't know how much longer he can comtinue to cuddle and defend subpar play. Reynold's performance has been totally unacceptable and shouldn't be tolerated.

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Pete's reply: Well, you make an interesting point. Buck certainly does not seem like a control freak, though I'm not behind closed doors. I thought Reynolds was snapping out of it over the past week, but those two big gaffes were tough to watch.

I won't quibble with all these points being made about players, Andy McPhail, etc., but the truth is that the Orioles will always be a AAAA team as long as Peter Angelos owns the team. The real Orioles philosophy is not "buy the bats and grow the arms", but rather buy the cheapest bats and grow the bank account. The Orioles have never scouted or signed a Pacific Rim (Asian) star, have never signed a Latin American star, have just shut down one of the two Dominican academies, and continue to have a scouting staff that's the joke of the industry. The sweetheart MASN deal that Angelos extorted from MLB that puts millions in Angelos' bank account was supposed to go, at least partially, to improve the O's. All it did was add a couple of zeroes to Angelos' net worth. And perhaps the coup de grace was the drafting of Matt Notgood. When you're one of, if not the worst team in baseball for 13 straight years, the one way to get better (see: Tampa Bay) is to use your high draft picks to build a better team. Instead, the Orioles took Notgood because he came on the cheap. In summary, if you don't sign any legitimate star free agents (Michael Gonzalez?, Jamie Walker? Garrett Atkins?), don't have a legitimate scouting department, don't prospect the Pacific Rim or Central America, don't draft and sign future stars in the amateur draft, don't reinvest some of the money you've made with the team and MASN, you are absolutely going to be pathetic, by choice, not accident, and aren't even trying to get better. Even though I have watched (since 1954), covered and worked in PR for the Orioles, I made a vow seven years ago to never watch an Orioles game in person or on TV, until Angelos died. I have kept that vow without temptation. What this man did to a great organization, which at one time was a community treasure, is despicable. The writers, pundits and fans can micro-analyze each move, each player, each GM, each manager, blah blah blah, ad infinitum, but until Angelos is gone, it's all a hopeless folly.

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Pete's reply: So, what do you do, listen on the radio?

it is interesting what fear can do for people...last year with all the hype of the
Buck Stops Here Show, he had these guys scared for their jobs....and guess what? they actually performed the last 2 months when he came on board as an actual professional MLB team....so what was the secret? Adam Jones said he was scared to make a mistake...they all were starting to feel what us regular folks feel when a new manager comes into the company to 'clean up'....job performance scared....well,, now that Buck is their buddy, the fear is fading.....Fear is good when it doles out respect & makes you want to be the best you can be....unfortunately you cannot be buddies with employees & that is Buck's mistake....that was Trembley's mistake & Samuel's mistake & Perozzo's mistake....Davey Johnson & Earl Weaver were bosses to the guys & the guys respected them enough to perform as professional baseball players....Well, all I can say is if the Buck really does stop here, then he better be job scared too....

don't be surprised if the Buck Showalter bobblehead doesn't explode when you tap it....lol....cause it will be long overdue...