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  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,106
    The Mariner ownership group treats the team as a business investment instead of what championship owners view their team as ... the rich person version of a dick measuring contest.

    Think about it this way, go throughout the history of the game and find me the number of teams that can boast this kind of talent in their organization at one time:

    CF who is in the prime of their career that is arguably a Top 5 CF in the history of the game

    LH SP who will end his career as no worse than a Top 3 LHP in the history of the game

    DH who would be on a short list of names as the best right-handed hitter of his generation

    SS on the verge of reaching the majors who while later in his career will be found out a PED abuser, it could not be debated that even if he wasn't insecure to the point that he took PEDs would be viewed as no worse than a Top 3 or 5 SS to ever play the game

    RF who had 7 straight seasons in his career hitting 20+ HR and it would have been 7 with 25+ if not for the 1994 strike shortened season

    1B who in his career had 9 20+ HR seasons and 6 100+ RBI seasons in his career

    You go ask any reasonable baseball executive and say that they'd be given that as a starting point for a franchise and they'd consider themselves the luckiest person in the world. Instead, the Mariners fuck it up by either making bad trades or being too cheap to round out the roster with the proper support to contend for championships.
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  • TierbsHsotBoobs
    TierbsHsotBoobs Member Posts: 39,680
    Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

    I remember coming to the conclusion about ten years ago that winning wasn't a priority at all. It was actually July 31st, 2003. They needed to make some kind of trade to put them over the top and the Jap or Lincoln Log refused to do it by the deadline. For all the smartasses (Boobs) out there, yeah, it wasn't a surprise. It was more of a confirmation.

    They kind of shoot for winning 85 gaymes, and if they overachieve and win 92, the fanbase willl eat that up, especially when it means postseason. They know how stupid most of them are.

    All the faggot ass airplane games, hydroplanes, kiss cams, pink Felix Court shirts, kiddie games, rally fries, Moose, grounds crew dances, and commercials etc. are marketing gimmicks, which would be tolerable if they were competent.

    We were joking about Marinerization of Husky Football in 2003, if not sooner.
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  • HFNY
    HFNY Member Posts: 5,402
    Yeah from 2003-2013, it was Marinerization for Husky Football. Woodward took the first against that by hiring a great coach who has the cattle and not just the hat.

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  • TierbsHsotBoobs
    TierbsHsotBoobs Member Posts: 39,680
    HFNY said:

    Yeah from 2003-2013, it was Marinerization for Husky Football. Woodward took the first against that by hiring a great coach who has the cattle and not just the hat.

    It still is Marinerization.

    See THE ZONE for details.
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