I love the Seattle Mariners. I love Major League Baseball.
Yet, I have to be honest. I am deeply disillusioned with the same old same old from this franchise. The Seattle Mariners have been deeply meaningful to me and my family since 1977. It’s a privilege and a gift to be a sports fan. For me, I believe it’s time to get real and speak the unspoken. It is the same old same old for M’s fans and I admit I am weary. We float on preseason hope until that balloon continues to slowly descend to the ground – year after year. Hey, we love professional baseball. We love the Seattle Mariners. It just hurts – hurts very deeply – when the same old begins to unfold – once again. There is a lot to love about this team. It’s time to make some decisions on poorly performing assets, throughout this organization – again. The evolving talent on this team has earned and deserves an ownership group willing to invest additional financial resources in the franchise, new executive management of baseball operations, a new manager, and a supporting cast of performing veteran talent who can make enduring, tangible, daily contributions toward the objective of becoming the perennial playoff contender we all continue to envision. However, that’s just not happening. Round and round we go – again…it’s dizzying.
Allow me to begin with a bit of personal history regarding my love of baseball.
The Birth of a Love for the Game:
I will be 70 years young soon. As a child, I was born and raised in Tacoma, WA. The first newspaper I ever read (and routinely thereafter while in the area) was the Tacoma News Tribune. The first radio station I listened to was KJR. My dad (deceased) came home from work, had dinner with the family, then reclined in his chair in the living room, listening to Walter Cronkite on our black and white TV, while reading the TNT. My dad gave me a small transistor radio when I was seven for my birthday. Chuck Bolland was the first radio personality I can recall – who led me to a lifetime love of rock n roll. My first baseball glove and ball remain precious memories (I still have a glove and ball).
When the 8,000 seat Cheney Stadium finally opened the gates in 1960, my dad played the game(s) on his transistor radio. I was six years old. The Tacoma Giants were the Triple-A squad for the San Francisco Giants. The second game of that double header featured a 22-year-old right-hander making his first appearance. His name was Juan Marichal. Later that same year, I became familiar with the name of another Tacoma Giant. His name was Willie McCovey. In 1961 I was introduced to two new Tacoma Giants by the names of Gaylord Perry and Dusty Rhodes.
We didn’t have a color TV when I was a child. It was a black & white TV with ‘rabbit ears.’ Sometimes, my dad would wrap tin foil on the rabbit ears to improve the reception. The radio became my friend. I can remember a time in my childhood when we could only receive three TV channels; 4, 7, and 11. In 1961, I was introduced to a team my dad called the ‘Yankees’ along with three of their stars; Whitey Ford, Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris. Maris hit 61 homers that season while Mantle smoked 54.The Yankees won the championship in 1961 – something my dad referred to this as the World Series.
On September 27, 1963, President John F. Kennedy gave a speech at Tacoma’s Cheney Stadium in front of an estimated 25,000 people. I read about it in the newspaper. I was nine years old. My mom and dad were incredibly proud the President made an appearance in our hometown. Less than a month later, President Kennedy was murdered in Dallas, Texas. I can remember my mom and dad crying and sobbing as they watched Walter Cronkite deliver the horrific news that night on our black & white TV in our living room.
In 1965 I attended my first professional baseball game. I walked from our home in Tacoma, WA to Cheney Stadium to watch the Tacoma Giants play ball. I was 11 years old. I played softball in elementary school and on various park league teams throughout my childhood. I loved it. During middle school and high school my affection for the game grew, primarily due to increased television broadcasts and a color TV. I focused more on football and basketball as a participant, while the NFL, NBA and MLB remained constants as my sports viewing preferences. After high school, college football and basketball became interesting to me, as well as the WSU college baseball team, coached by a fellow named Bobo Brayton. During my undergrad and post-grad studies at WSU I became a regular attendee during the spring baseball games when it was warm and sunny. From 1970–1981 WSU enjoyed a streak of 11 consecutive Pac-10 North Division titles. The game was fast, well-played and exciting. In 1977, the Seattle Mariners began their first season. I was hooked.
I cannot tell you how many M’s games I attended in the Kingdome. Watching the team on live TV became a decade’s long habituation for me that persists to this day. To recount all the joy this franchise and its players have provided me and my family would become far too lengthy and would bore you. Yet, Suzuki, Moyer, Cameron, Reynolds, Rodriguez, Buhner, The Big Unit, Junior, Olerud, Boone, Wilson, Cruz, Guillen, McLemore, Bell, King Felix, Edgar, Cora, Blowers, Garcia, Davis, Ibanez, Niehaus, and Pinella are names emblazoned indelibly in my soul. (No, Cano is not on my list as he was a repeated PED offender).
I recall the rancor in 1994-1995 when the prospect of losing MLB in Seattle became a reality. I was interviewed live on KIRO radio imploring listeners to approve the funding for a new ballpark. The thought of losing MLB in Seattle was abhorrent to me. The new SAFECO Field would open on July 15, 1999 with 47,999 fans in attendance. The Mariners set the regular season MLB record in 2001 with 116 wins. I was ecstatic as an M’s fan – confident we were headed for baseball nirvana – representing the American League in the 2001 World Series. I was in attendance on October 18, 2001 for game 2 of the ALCS against the Yankees. We lost game two of that series 3-2 and lost the series four games to one. I experienced new depths of dejection I had never known before as a Mariners fan.
2015 to Present – The Dipoto Era
Fast forward to 2015 – as 2002 to 2015 are thirteen years worth forgetting, (other than King Felix and a few others) regarding the Seattle Mariners franchise. Jerry Dipoto was introduced as the General Manager of the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday Sep 29, 2015. At his introductory press conference he stated (AP):
“I think the one thing that we are missing right now is just a general roster depth. The lineup needs to be a little longer, the rotation needs to be a little deeper, the bullpen needs to have more layers than it presently has,” Dipoto said. “That’s something through hard work, scouting, the use of proper analytics you can turn over a couple of rocks and find a guy here and there, and create depth on a roster that allows you to be competitive quickly.” He also added his belief the Mariners are not that far away and expected the 2015 version of the Mariners to live up to expectations and be a contender for the AL West title. They did not.
So, enter Dipoto. That was nine years ago. Let me repeat that; nine (9) years ago. In 2015 he said, “I think the one thing that we are missing right now is just a general roster depth. The lineup needs to be a little longer, the rotation needs to be a little deeper, the bullpen needs to have more layers than it presently has… and create depth on a roster that allows you to be competitive quickly.” He also shared his belief the Mariners are “not that far away.” Remember, this was 2015.
The Mariners made the playoffs in 2022. Cal Raleigh’s home run to right field on October 1, 2022 is a memory of joy that is unprecedented in my life experience as a sports fan. With two outs in the 9th inning, the game against the Oakland A’s was tied 1-1. Raleigh came to the plate as a pinch hitter. Jared Kelenic was on deck. The count went to 3-2 on Raleigh. After fouling off the first 3-2 pitch, he launched a home run to right that sent the Mariners to the playoffs for the first time since 2001…and the crowd into a frenetic frenzy that endures to this day. The Mariners clinched the AL West wild card. This ended a twenty one year playoff appearance drought for the franchise. They were ousted in their first playoff series by their perennial nemesis, the Houston Astros. They failed to garner a playoff berth in 2023.
Dipoto et al deserve credit for improving the farm system, drafting well, identifying and developing upcoming prospect and international talent, and assembling one of the most feared starting rotations in baseball (2024). Do they have any experience whatsoever in taking this talent to the next level? Nope.
PTSD – Post-season Traumatic Stress Disorder
Like many Mariners fans, we continue to suffer from PTSD – Post-season Traumatic Stress Disorder. This enduring impairment began to unfold in late July 2023 when starting left fielder Jarred Kelenic, a fan favorite, kicked a water cooler out of frustration and fractured his left foot. (He was traded to the Atlanta Braves after the 2023 season concluded). The club was 48-48 and 4th in the AL West standings when Kelenic ‘kicked the can’ on July 20, 2023. At this juncture in the season, somebody needed to kick the can…
In August 2023, the M’s experienced one of their most successful win streaks in their history, with Julio Rodriguez leading the way. Rodriguez batted .429 with 45 hits, 7 home runs, 30 RBIs and 19 runs scored in 23 games in August 2023. They went 21-6 in August. The expectations of Mariners fans skyrocketed. This success catapulted the team into a playoff contending position to start September 2023. The Julio Show was on full display. Mariners fans were apoplectic.
The astounding success of August 2023 vanished in September. The club posted an 11-17 record and the performance of Julio Rodríguez became a ‘no show’ batting .233 with 27 hits, 8 home runs, 16 RBIs and 20 runs scored in 28 games in September 2023. The team was denied a playoff opportunity by one game. Fans and players were traumatized at this unthinkable reality.
Then – it got worse; much worse.
On October 3, 2023 Jerry Dipoto stood at a podium and told the world, among other things:
• The goal is to win 54% of your games each season.
• “We have done the fans a favor.”
• The 2023 season, in which the Mariners failed to make the playoffs for the 21st time in the past 22 seasons, represented a “step forward” for the franchise.
• The Mariners who added no players at the July 2023 trade deadline would have handled the trade deadline “exactly the same.”
The Mariners fan base, MLB analysts and pundits, the international sports media press – went berserk!!! The outrage, disgust and rage Dipoto unleashed was unparalleled in baseball media history. It was an unequivocal public relations nightmare of proportions, intensity and velocity that literally ricocheted around the globe. I wrote extensively about the “Dipoto Disaster.” The piece was read widely and quoted from.
Long suffering Mariners baseball analyst, writer and pundit Nathan Bishop captured the visceral reaction of the baseball world in this written statement:
“For myself I do not see how the Seattle Mariners come back from this. I believe Jerry Dipoto’s words yesterday are more thoughtless, arrogant, condescending, and hurtful than the infamous Kevin Mather Rotary Club call of 2021. It is one thing to attempt to flatten a beautiful sport down into a predictable, low–yield Roth IRA. Many baseball teams do this. It’s another to tell you to your face that’s what is being done, and asking for a thank you for it. It’s clear that Dipoto has nothing but contempt and disdain for the role of the fans in baseball, and holds himself and his role as far exceeding any such trivial concern as “winning titles.”
You might also enjoy these sources for their reaction to this farcical, insulting public relations nightmare:
See Mariners baseball analyst Chris Crawford‘s commentary HERE:
The LOCKED ON MARINERS take on all this is HERE.
The MARINERS MOJO take is HERE:
Foul Territory’s episode with Ken Rosenthal of MLB to discuss Dipoto and the 2023 season ending press conference HERE:
Finishing The Job?
“Is Dipoto the guy to finish the job?” remains an open question. Here is our point of view that we hope you will consider in response to this enduring question, that remains unaddressed…for the moment.
Well, the Wall Street Journal’s Scott Patterson wrote a book a decade ago entitled, “THE QUANTS – How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It.” Patterson states his case regarding Wall Street analytics that is pertinent to the Dipoto era with the Seattle Mariners::
“In other words, there is no single truth in the chaotic world of finance, where panics, manias, and chaotic crowd behavior can overwhelm all expectations of rationality. Models designed on the premise that the market is predictable and rational are doomed to fail. When hundreds of billions of highly leveraged dollars are riding on those models, catastrophe is looming.” (P. 294 – Emphasis is mine).).
“To quants, unprecedented is perhaps the dirtiest word in the English language. Their models are by necessity backward-looking, based on decades of data about how markets operate in all kinds of conditions. When something is unprecedented, it falls outside the parameters of the models. In other words, the models don’t work anymore.” (Pp. 271-272 – Emphasis is mine).
Jerry Dipoto, Justin Hollander and Wilson are representative of the quants that now inhabit MLB baseball. These guys are not qualified to move this franchise to the stated destination they have touted for 9 VERY LONG years.
The “opportunity” is now squarely in front of the ownership group of the Seattle Mariners. John Stanton must also be removed from his current position as the Managing General Partner for the Mariners ownership group – and replaced with somebody who has a spine. We don’t want an interview with John Stanton. We want him gone – along with the other three knuckleheads.
It’s time to re-engineer, reorganize and replace the current executive management and ownership representation of the Seattle Mariners. The only way out of this mess is for the admirals to make the decision that Dipoto et al have earned their opportunity to “walk the plank” – so others who are vastly more experienced and astute may guide this ship off the reef this guy has so irretrievably and precariously positioned this franchise on.
Finish the job? That’s exactly what the Seattle Mariners ownership group must do. This is NOT difficult. It is obvious and fundamentally essential what action must be taken at this time. NOW!
ADHD Infects This Franchise
“The Nine Year Nada, Zip, Zero” triplets must go. 9 freaking years y’all… this franchise is afflicted with ADHD having experienced “Another Decade of Heartache and Disappointment.”
The Dipoto era can be characterized as ADHD meaning Architects of Disappointment Heartbreak and Disillusionment or Another Dipoto and Hollander Disaster. Don’t you dare blame mediocre on-field poor performance on – primarily – ownership…..”The baseball ops and analytics executives make the baseball decisions for this franchise.” Another housecleaning is imminent – it begins with removing Dipoto, Hollander, Servais etal. Time’s up for Hollander and Dipoto – the architects of rebuild and “roster design/roster construction” for the past decade people!!! Are we fans asleep or just numb to ongoing, endemic poor performance from this franchise?
The future for this franchise would look far different with Mark DeRosa as President of Baseball Operations and Pete Woodworth as Manager. (If DeRosa is good with that). DeRosa can select Hollander’s replacement. He can get an agreement on a new budget before he signs on with ownership. Am I dreaming or is this franchise on autopilot with the GPS fixed on mediocrity? Another Dipoto and Hollander Disappointment!!! ADHD! These guys have hypnotized Seattle Mariners fans into believing “This is normal. We got this.” We seem to get just enough hope each season to somehow accept the mediocrity that has come to inhabit this franchise…year after year after year. Yet – the sustainability of wins remain elusive. Inconsistency remains consistent.
We Seattle Mariners fans are afflicted with Acute Dipoto and Hollander Disorder. It is NOW time to begin recovery from the affliction that has infected this franchise for far too long. This is not normal. It is NOT acceptable! Mariners fans do not have to live this way anymore. The source of this disability needs to be addressed – NOW!!! Another decade of disappointment under the direction of this “baseball brain trust” is unacceptable. We Mariners fans do NOT have to suffer like this anymore~
A decade you guys… Why isn’t anybody on sports talk radio talking about the necessity to move on from this crew? I mean necessity.
NOTE: (ADD and ADHD are serious neurological disabilities. I know people who suffer from these afflictions and it’s awful. This author does not intend that my use of the metaphors contained herein are to diminish the seriousness of those disabilities or is insensitive to any persons who are suffering with living with these afflictions. My intention was to make a point using acronyms pertinent to the subject of the behavioral disability within the Seattle Mariners baseball ops, managerial and analytics executive management. My sincere apologies if I offended anyone with the use of these references – that is most certainly not my intention).
Lengthening the Lineup
Remember what Dipoto said Tuesday Sep 29, 2015. At his introductory press conference he stated (AP):
“I think the one thing that we are missing right now is just a general roster depth. The lineup needs to be a little longer”…
The point is, in 9 long years this has not become reality.
This franchise desperately requires replacements for the architects of a decade of disappointment. Dipoto, Hollander and Servais must be replaced. Their positive contributions are so noted. It’s time to move beyond the mind numbing mediocrity this crew produces year after year. Now!!!
It’s time for somebody to holler MOMMA!
(Mariners Ongoing March to Mediocrity Again!).
PLEASE!
My wife and I (36 years) are happily retired. We have been Mariners fans since April 6, 1977. We subscribe to MLB.TV so we can watch EVERY Mariners game. That won’t change. Here are our 2023 year-end viewing stats as provided by MLB.TV as confirmation (Yes – we have a life):
There is a whole lotta talent on this 2024 team and it is exciting to watch it evolve…J.P. Crawford, Raley, Cal Raleigh, Julio Rodriguez, Robles, Bliss, Taylor, Dylan Moore, Munoz, Gilbert, Woo, Kirby, Miller, Brash, Castillo, Servais etc. There are also underperforming veteran players that no longer deserve playing time on this club. Dipoto has a wretched track record for “lengthening the line up” on this club. He also has a terrible history of making any meaningful acquisitions at the trade deadlines(s). (They did nothing at the 2023 deadline and missed the playoffs by one game. He cannot be trusted to finish the job. . It’s time to pull the plug on those under-performing place holders. It’s time for ownership to make the moves that have become obvious. It’s time to clean house and demonstrate to the club, the fans, and the community that this “rebuild” – now in its 9th year – is serious business – and that the focus and dedication to produce a consistent playoff contender remains ongoing. Muddling through with poorly performing veterans has had its day. It’s time for deliberate action by the ownership to move on from the maddening, maniacal, machinations with mediocrity. All stakeholders have earned and deserve vastly better than this. Plus, the franchise cannot afford more GM moves into the well with the hand basket of hope, whereby the GM reaches into the pool of well traveled veterans whose ability to produce is in the rearview mirror.
As fans, we are unwilling to accept that the march through the miasma of mediocrity – which has been the Mariners history – needs to continue marching into this 2025 season’s future. This trajectory can and must be interrupted now – by releasing current non-performing veterans, elevating and nurturing current prospect talent, investing in some veteran bats, and immediate, bullpen help, and serious consideration of changes at the top of this outfit. We are willing to accept (and fully expect) this squad will underperform for the remainder of the 2024 season. However, to continue on this path without an immediate examination – and actions taken – to rid the club of poorly performing veterans, Dipoto, Hollander and Wilson is simply unacceptable. These moves will demonstrate to the players on the club, the fans, and community that the Mariners organization is unwilling to sit idly by and watch this maddening, moronic march to mediocrity continue. This franchise has become comfortable with a regression to the mean which requires the immediate replacement of non-performing personnel throughout the franchise.
Seattle Mariners 2024 – Seattle’s Mumbling Meek Media Coverage
I have not commented on social media Mariners platforms for a while – it’s a new time management discipline for me (avoiding Mariners podcasts and Mariners social media sports platforms, and sports talk radio, intentionally) Why do sports talk Mariners media coverage NOT – terribly infrequently – attribute blame for this “roster design/roster construction” to Dipoto and Hollander is beyond me. They CHOSE the players on this squad – as they have for 9 very long years – and – what do we have? Same old same old. Another rerun from the brain trust of this outfit. You are absolutely spot on…it’s pathetic!
However, I have learned that Seattle sports talk personalities (including KJR, almost ALL M’s YouTube podcasts, Locked on Mariners, and Seattle Sports, etc.) wilt and cower at the mention of Hollander and Dipoto’s names and their track record of acquiring new offensive talent each year with the same non-productive talent they parted ways with the season before. Over and over and over again.
It’s one thing to build a stellar rotation and reengineer the farm system and a completely different skill set to assemble the pieces essential for putting a legitimate, sustainable, competitive winner on the field. Dipoto and Hollander and Wilson have absolutely no past or present experience doing that. NONE!!!
The “World Series – that is the goal”? Come on man!!! I could puke! The notion that this stellar starting rotation with the laughable – I mean laughable – offensive capabilities of these players and the state of this bullpen is, to put it kindly, is pathetic. It is not real. It is a hope filled narrative that has nary a drop of prudent prognostication. On a Mollywhop segment on KJR93.3FM (June 3, 2024) the three pundits ALL made confident, public predictions this squad will win the AL West! What a crock of nonsense! Have you seen the offensive firepower of the Astros come to life lately? Yes – their pitching has, as of today, been decimated. The Rangers ARE the world champions. The collective public statements on Mollywhop (June 3, 2024) were intoxicated by a wave of their own testosterone from the 3 game sweep of the “Angels” – the freaking Anaheim Angels!!! Arguably one of the worst teams in baseball in 2024. Come on guys!!! The Mariners just got no-hit for six innings tonight (6-5-2024) by a no-name hurler from the Oakland A’s they made look like Cy Young.
Mitch and Mitch and Polanco? Move on now Jerry, Justin and Wilson!!! Urias is an unequivocal bust and Polanco has re-injured a previous recurring injury. Does this sound like the 2023 script with Wong, La Stella, Pollock and Hummel? Of course it does – Because IT IS! How quickly we forget the October 2023 season end presser! The famine of a contending team in Seattle blinds fans and pundits to an obvious reality – The Manager and executive management of this team have NO EXPERIENCE whatsoever taking a team like this to becoming what they publicly proclaim is to the Promised Land of an AL Division championship or beyond. When will those responsible for “roster design and roster construction” begin – yes begin – to be held accountable for the repetitive choices they have made – that leave us ALL – having the same darn discussions in 2024 that we have had in previous seasons.
Change in on-field positive performance will not happen without a chorus led by media outlets that purport to cover the Mariners who have the fundamentally essential courage to stop cowering from speaking the unspoken and demand accountability from the three stooges. “AL West title?” What a load of bunk!!! All that is is wishful thinking for a meal that we Mariners fans have not had for 2 decades. Somebody needs to garner the guts to call out those responsible for this unacceptable repetition of fielding a roster year after year of non- performing offensive roster players…then – replacing them with the same.
Oh – then the Boogey Man pops out – John Stanton – the scapegoat for the absurd baseball decisions made by Dipoto, Hollander et al. This boogey man stuff just obfuscates the focus from the responsibility for the ongoing poor performance of the Manager, the GM and POBO! Period! These guys do NOT HAVE ANY EXPERIENCE finishing the job they are – once again – confronted with. NONE! “They just need the Money from ownership! ”Yeah, right! Why would you trust these knuckleheads with the money when their track record sucks – it’s awful – it’s pathetic – when confronted with these SAME sorts of decisions? I certainly wouldn’t!
Hopeful fervor blinds one to reason. Sure – this 2024 starting rotation is top notch! Extend Cal Raleigh – why? (Anyway – Scott Boris is laughing his behind off at that notion – just like he is with the acquisition talk about Pete Alonso!). Canzone belongs in Tacoma. Yet, those responsible for initiating and maintaining the essential narrative required – cower at the thought…They are comfortable in their haze commanding baseball stats hoodwinked by the numbers that dance in their heads – perfectly comfortable to not look in the mirror for what they are overlooking or unable to recognize.
It is a complex and multi-dimensional challenge building any professional sports franchise, in any sport, into a perennial powerhouse. The Seattle sports talk media that “cover” the Mariners is one of the dimensions currently missing. We require Seattle Mariners sports talk media who are “covering” not cowering – to speak the unspoken. We do not need media coverage of this franchise that is feeble, over sensitive, unwilling to advocate for essential change, is weak kneed, and meek – whose absence of courage produces a “cover-up” perpetuating the fundamental problem of this franchise.
Nor do we need or deserve – as fans – media coverage that elicits confident and bold predictions of an AL West title for this franchise in 2024 – riding high on a testosterone surge from a 3 game sweep of the freaking Anaheim Angels in June 2024. This is not the bold, and insightful media this franchise requires to demand change at the top of the baseball hierarchy presently accountable for another repeat lackluster performance of producing another season of fundamentally unacceptable mediocrity…particularly with the absolutely stunning performances and capabilities of this uniquely gifted starting rotation – who have a realistic probability of setting historical, collective starting pitching stats by the end of the 2024 season. They are a truly gifted group of professional athletes. They are a joy and privilege to watch.
Seattle Mariners sports talk media need to re-evaluate their coverage of this franchise. They need to stop “covering” and uncover the ongoing cover-up of the fundamental issues that perpetuate the perplexing predicament this franchise perennially finds itself in – for the past – NINE VERY long years…
Conclusion
We fans would deeply appreciate it. For one, I am confident Seattle sports talk media on every platform – has the talent, guts, intelligence and fortitude to do just that. We love this team. We love Major League Baseball. We deserve a winner! That’s not entitlement…that’s the desire of every fan in every sport. We need help from those who have the pulpits to lead the way. Seattle Mariners sports media outlets need to change their tune. The deep dives into the statistics of baseball provides cover for those media voices to hide behind instead of speaking the unspoken truths regarding this franchise must address. Enough!
Thank you. It’s going to take a rebuild versus another two acquisitions. The rebuild begins by replacing Hollander, Wilson and Dipoto. Nine years of NO contender! Nada! The Seattle Mariners need to intentionally open the windows and sliding doors and allow a new refreshing breeze to reset and replace the miasma that currently inhabits the executive suites and the manager’s office…while professionally and sincerely thanking the Wilson, Hollander and Dipoto for their service and tangible positive contributions…as they are led to the exit door.
We will continue to watch every game because we are lifelong MLB and Mariners fans – and – the current and upcoming core talent on this Mariners team clearly deserves our support. There is a lot to love about this team. It’s time to make some decisions on poorly performing assets, throughout this organization – again. The evolving talent on this team has earned and deserves a supporting cast of new visionary management, upcoming talent, and established veterans who can supplement the performing core and collectively, make tangible, daily contributions toward the objective of becoming the sustainable, perennial playoff contender we all yearn to experience. But some of us are getting on to our latter years. We want a World Series Banner before we move on.
Thank you for listening….allowing me to speak my unspoken as a lifelong Seattle Mariners fan… We sincerely appreciate MLB yet remain deeply concerned about those currently empowered to produce a winning franchise in Seattle. We are NOT alone. Professional baseball is hard – we get that. Not this hard…
