Provocative Aside/Bitch-Slap of Drayton from Gammons

I'm not an ESPN "Insider," so I don't know if he follows up the thought, but here's the lede of a recent Peter Gammons column from here:

You can stop at the Grand Canyon, or maybe Zion on the off-day drive. And while you're out there on the run from Phoenix to Denver, you can think about where the Texas Rangers might be today had Tom Hicks listened to former Rangers GM Doug Melvin instead of talking heads. Or how the Orioles might actually be relevant if Peter Angelos listened to anyone. Or what the Houston Astros might be with rational ownership.