"Run, don't umpire."

You know what I’d like to see? Trembley say “I told him, ‘You won’t see your name in the lineup again until you’ve done ten laps around OPACY, and if you do that again, it will be twenty.”

I believe in treating professional adults like professional adults, not like backups on a high school football team. But this is part of the problem with Dave. Atkins is one of the older guys on our team. He’s getting paid millions on a team loaded with guys making the minimum. He’s got “playoff experience” – hell, he’s been to the World Series.

It would be one thing if Atkins was just hitting poorly. But he’s not playing hard. He’s not someone who came up in our system or who is part of this team going forward. He HAS to be one of the first guys who gets his ass busted publicly for not trying hard. It needs to be clear that if we’re stuck dumping him and eating $4.5 million that we’re going to make it abundantly clear to everyone that’s he’s a lazy sod unworthy of another major league contract.

He’s embarrassed our front office, who thought he was a hard worker deserving of a starting spot in our lineup and multiple millions of dollars. He’s embarrassed his teammates, some of whom are sitting on the bench because they are supposed to be not as good as Atkins and will give us a worse chance to win. At what point do those people start to hold him accountable?

Dear Orioles,

Please use this incident to release Garrett Atkins, since clearly his offensive abilities are not disconcerting to you.

Best regards

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