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)
It is a rare baseball manager whose mots are so bons they end up on T-shirts. Surely there are few who inspire their teams to immortalize them as garden gnomes. Or those whose dry, pause-filled post-game press conferences were often more entertaining than what preceded them.
But that is why Orioles Nation “Buckled Up.” We liked the guy who liked our guys.