Tuesday night on WBAL Radio, host Brett Hollander and Baltimore Sun Orioles beat writer Ed Encina were recapping the season. During the discussion of Mark Reynolds, they were talking about how Reynolds transformed over the course of the year.

It wasn’t just that Reynolds went from a guy whose very presence on the roster seemed in doubt during the first half of the season to someone who was a key component in the surge to the postseason. And there was more than Reynolds’ emergence from an error machine to a toe-tappingly slick first baseman. There was the way he became something of a surrogate Buck Showalter in how he spoke.

Hollander and Encina recalled in particular Reynolds’ fiery rant in August in Detroit, when umpires reversed a call at first on a play where he had appeared to maintain contact with the bag while laying out for a throw. Reynolds and Showalter were ejected in the ensuing argument, Reynolds immediately after spiking his glove.

After the game, Reynolds’ rant included: “It’s a shame they don’t have accountability. … If they make a bad call, its like: ‘Ho-hum, next day is coming.’ If we have a bad couple of games, we get benched or we get sent down. They have nobody breathing down their throats. … And they are probably over there laughing about it because they don’t worry about it. It’s almost like, ‘Screw the Orioles’ by the umpires.”

So that’s what Showalter really wanted to say?