Colletti walks line between baseball genius and scapegoat

I keep a close watch on this...Angel Berroa!?..of mine.

Should they lose this series, Colletti’s job security will become a topic of discussion again, which seems to be the least of his worries.

“My relationship with ownership, I think, is very solid,” Colletti said in a lengthy interview with The Chronicle before the NLCS. “I talk to Jamie all the time. I talk to Frank all the time. I didn’t have that feeling” of being in trouble.

..."As far as I’m concerned, I don’t have a worry,” Colletti said. “I don’t want to lose the opportunity I have, but I’ll have other chances if this doesn’t work out.”

In fact, Colletti might be the only man in Los Angeles who believes the Ramirez deal alone did not win the division. He insisted the acquisitions of shortstop Angel Berroa and third baseman Casey Blake were equally important, stabilizing an infield that had gone through four shortstops and featured a wobbly-kneed second baseman.