I have long talked about Peter Angelos and his desire to be in on every move that the GM makes. He runs the team like he would run another type of business and like Tom Hicks and a few other owners out there that come into this business and think if you get the best player or the biggest name or even the most expensive player that you will have something, Angelos doesn’t really understand the business of this sport, even though he does understand business. What is relatively interesting, as this article in the Baltimore Sun points out is that at moments he runs it like we fans might think we would.  In describing his history of nixing trades the writers point to one two years ago where the O’s would have traded Brian Roberts to the Braves.  Angelos nixed it because he like Roberts and thought he was such a good guy that he wanted him to stay an Oriole forever.  He wanted Roberts’s legacy to be intertwined with the Orioles just as Cal Ripken’s is.  He nixed many Tejada deals, I suspect, because Tejada was heir to Ripken’s record, until an injury this past season.  Again, its about legacy.  We love certain guys, the way they play, or how nice they are to our kids, but they may not always be the best guy for the team to win, and Orioles fans know this better than anyone.  Sure, you can have a mix of the two, but if we want to win, sometimes we have to let our favorites go.  In the case of Brian Roberts, that deal mentioned in the article may not have been the best deal, so Angelos probably did the right thing.  But, I think Angelos might regret alienating Pat Gillick, a guy who has turned around many franchises and is closely associated with winning wherever he has gone.  Hire the right people.  Let them know what is important to you, and then let them do their jobs.  You can hold them accountable if they don’t do what you have asked, if results aren’t there, but you have to let them do their job.