Baltimore Sun's Orioles beat writer Jon Meoli on the Orioles decision to not bring Buck Showalter back for another season. (Kevin Richardson / Baltimore Sun video)
Until the end, former Orioles manager Buck Showalter stuck with the plan. With his future quite possibly sealed last weekend at Camden Yards but games still to be played and nothing publicly settled about his job status, Showalter treated the season finale Sunday like any other game, preparing that makeshift Orioles team to play the Houston Astros the same way he did when the two teams met in April, a whole season ahead for each.