If Orioles manager Dave Trembley was cast for a movie, he’d join the long list of characters whose good intentions led to them meeting their demise.

Trembley would be the lovable guy who heads into the decrepit house, knowing Jason Voorhees or Freddy Krueger is lurking in the darkness, ready to pounce on unsuspecting prey.

“Don’t go in that house! Stay out of there! Run, dummy, run!”

But Trembley doesn’t listen. He wants to be the hero, the guy who saves the day — just like he’s been trying to do since being named interim manager on June 18.

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Orioles fans know how this movie ends. They’ve seen it often in recent years. Managers don’t walk into the home team’s clubhouse at Oriole Park at Camden Yards and come back out with their careers in tact. It’s a bloody affair. Since Peter Angelos took over 14 years ago, seven managers have strolled into the Warehouse and all of them have met an untimely end — that’s an average of a new victim every two seasons.

Now the only question is: How long will Trembley survive the Orioles’ house of horrors?

Maybe Trembley will stick around for next season’s sequel. Andy MacPhail, the team’s president of baseball operations who is in charge of personnel decisions, is still deciding if he’s going to cast Trembley next season.

But from all appearances, he should. Trembley’s hard to root against. You want to see him outwit the monster — which in the case of the Orioles is nine consecutive losing seasons — and provide a true Hollywood ending by steering the team to its first postseason appearance since 1997.

Trembley is likable. His “Aw Shucks! Let’s get back to basics,” philosophy somehow comes off as something that can spur the team to victory. Even though his interviews are packed with clichés, he’s passionate.

Trembley, the team’s bullpen coach at the start of the season, was no one’s favorite to take over for Sam Perlozzo. The Orioles appeared so set on hiring Joe Girardi many fans and the media didn’t envision him in the manager’s office very long. Yet, look at Trembley now: He’s managing in the big leagues a year after leading the Orioles’ Triple-A team.

Going into Friday night’s game with the White Sox, the Orioles are 9-10 under Trembley after going 29-40 under Perlozzo. At times, the Orioles appear to play more inspired than they did under Perlozzo. At other moments, they look just like the manager serial killers that they are.

More than likely, this is the team Trembley is stuck with the rest of the season, as MacPahil has said he doesn’t see any major changes on the horizon.

If anything, the remainder of the season at Camden Yards will be great drama.

Let’s just hope that in this movie, he’s not like Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense- already dead.

Matt Palmer is a staff writer for The Examiner who regularly writes columns on Major League Baseball and the NFL. He can be reached at mpalmer@baltimoreexaminer.com.