For Kreis’ sake, leave the man alone.

Can we please let Jason Kreis do his job without having the Twitter mob threatening his job?

He’s suffering enough on his own without all of the noxious negativity surrounding his Orlando City club right now.

“I don’t handle the losing part too well; I don’t handle the poor performances well,” Kreis said Wednesday after the Lions’ grueling practice in the stifling August heat in a city that should be known as The Birthplace of Humidity. “I take a ton of responsibility for it; I honestly do. In a lot of ways, I feel it’s my fault if the team doesn’t play well and it’s my fault that we lose. That’s how I’ve always been. It was the same way when I was a player.”

See what I mean?

The man is torturing himself right now with a struggling team that is an unfathomable and unacceptable 2-8-6 in its last 16 matches. It’s been nearly two months since the toothless Lions scored multiple goals in a match. Let’s be honest, shall we: Right at this moment, Orlando City is closer to being the worst team in the league than the best.

Obviously, fans have a right to be frustrated, but they don’t have a right to be insane. What gets me is this ridiculous social media rush to judgment and the narrative that Kreis is suddenly coaching to save his job. This seems absolutely absurd to me when you’re talking about a coach of Kreis’ credentials.

When I asked Kreis on Wednesday if he ever goes on social media, he shook his head:

“I used to and I stopped,” he said. “It’s an influence that doesn’t matter to me. Everybody is going to have an opinion and social media gives too many people too big of an outlet to have those opinions.”

The last tweet from Kreis’ Twitter account was more than a year ago on July 1, 2016, after he attended what presumably was a fantastic concert by Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Jason Mraz.

“There are so few moments in your life when you feel as if someone is accessing your soul directly,” Kreis tweeted after the show. “At that moment, all you can do is let them in .. Thank you Jason Mraz. I owe you one!”

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Kreis was hired by Orlando City two weeks after that Tweet and hasn’t been on social media since. Smart man. While the sweet acoustic guitar of Mraz may have accessed Kreis’ soul; the clanging cymbals on social media these days would only break his heart.

Kreis simply doesn’t deserve all of this speculation and second-guessing about his job security. The man clearly knows what he’s doing and knows how to win in MLS. For crying out loud, when he was with Real Salt Lake, he was the youngest coach in league history to ever win an MLS Cup and he nearly won another one but dramatically lost to Sporting Kansas City on penalty kicks.

He knows what it takes to excel in MLS – as a coach and a player. He’s a former league MVP and is sixth all-time in goals scored.

He’s only two-thirds of the way through his first real season as Orlando City’s coach, and his team is still only one spot and two points below the playoff line. Is soccer the only the sport in the world where coaches are fired in the court of public opinion before their first full season is even over?

Kreis took over expansion NYCFC three years ago and was fired after his first season. He was hired by Orlando City midway through last season after popular coach Adrian Heath was fired after only a year-and-a-half into Orlando City’s MLS existence.

Let’s remember, Kreis stepped into a dysfunctional situation with Orlando City; not only on the pitch but in the executive offices. The marriage between team co-founders Phil and Kay Rawlins was on the rocks, and Phil stepped down as team president amid the controversy and consternation.

Kreis is a no-nonsense coach who took over a franchise filled with nonsense: Partying players, front-office fighting and an unrealistic fan base.

So get off of his back.

I’m telling you, if you give Kries a chance to build the team the way he wants to build it, Orlando City will be successful for a long, long time. Don’t forget, after missing the postseason in his first year as a head coach, he took Real Salt Lake to the playoffs for seven consecutive years.

For Kreis’ sake, give the man a chance to clean up the mess he did not make.

Maybe Jason Mraz had Jason Kreis in mind when he wrote one of his most famous lyrics:

“You’re an island of reality in an ocean of diarrhea.”

mbianchi@orlandosentinel.com