As Padres General Manager A.J. Preller sat in a Petco Park dugout engulfed by cameras Saturday to explain why he fired manager Andy Green with eight games left in the season, he absorbed part of the blame.
Good start since, as Al Gore once uttered, it’s an inconvenient truth.
Bubbling underneath the decision to cut Green loose — after the Friars frayed in the second half, after a brutal September to forget, after growing examples of listlessness on the field — is the reality that Preller and ownership need a trip to the nearest mirror.