The Mariners entered this
2015 season with such high expectations.
Some dreamed of a World Series berth, even. Most predicted us to make the playoffs. But the Mariners sit at 42-50, and most
Mariners fans would admit this season is probably over. Is it mathematically and logically possible
the Mariners could make a run at a playoff spot? Sure.
But this team has been fiddled and farted with so much, there is
absolutely NOTHING to give us
any reason to expect a turnaround. I for
one am very disappointed in this team, and it's an all too familiar feeling I
get with this ball club.
Four years ago, I said that if the Mariners didn't make the playoffs or LOOK like they'd make the playoffs by 2015, I'd give up on them. Well, it's 2015 and the playoffs seem like a pipe dream. I said I'd stop following them and stop buying merchandise and stop going to games and that's exactly what I'm going to do. I'm slowly going to stop watching their games on TV, and from this point on I will not buy any Mariner merchandise or go to any games. I refuse to support such a poorly run organization. It's funny--all they have to do is look across the street to the Seahawks (and Sounders) to see how to run a successful sports franchise.
The Mariners are a joke. Literally. They've been made fun of on the TV show "How I Met Your Mother", they are constantly lauded and joked about by casual sports fans in Seattle. You ask a person, any person who knows who the Mariners are and what they think of them, and (unless they've been under a rock the past 15 years) they'll say that they suck (or some variation). This team has such a bad image problem I'm surprised they managed to lure high-priced free agents in Robinson Cano and Nelson Cruz. Oh that's right, they just threw enough money at them, anything to get someone to be a bobblehead on Bobblehead Night.
The amount of things wrong with this team and the reasons they lose more often than they win are too numerous for me to name. Lloyd and Jack need to go. In fact, ownership needs to go (but you can't "fire" ownership, sadly). A lot of the players (while most of them not their fault) have under-performed and need to go. This team is such a mess not even a GM with OCD would want to take this team on. This organization had its "fifteen minutes of fame" from 1995-2001, but outside those years this baseball franchise is a complete and udder joke, failure, abomination, and travesty. Those words may sound harsh, but it's the truth. In the 32 years outside of 1995-2001, the Mariners have had just 7 WINNING SEASONS, eclipsing 90 wins just TWICE.
So I bid my farewell to the Mariners. I hope your ticket and merchandise sales plummet. If you're as fed up as I am, please join me in staying away from Safeco and refusing to buy merchandise. You do one of those two things and all you're doing is encouraging them to continue to do what they're doing and that's building a LOSER. There is something wrong with this organization, and it's not just the players. In fact, it's BARELY them. It's ownership and management. Unless ownership changes or they take the necessary steps to "reboot" this franchise, I will not be following the Mariners. I will be more than willing to come back and support this franchise once changes are made. But until then, Mariners, I bid thee farewell.
Four years ago, I said that if the Mariners didn't make the playoffs or LOOK like they'd make the playoffs by 2015, I'd give up on them. Well, it's 2015 and the playoffs seem like a pipe dream. I said I'd stop following them and stop buying merchandise and stop going to games and that's exactly what I'm going to do. I'm slowly going to stop watching their games on TV, and from this point on I will not buy any Mariner merchandise or go to any games. I refuse to support such a poorly run organization. It's funny--all they have to do is look across the street to the Seahawks (and Sounders) to see how to run a successful sports franchise.
The Mariners are a joke. Literally. They've been made fun of on the TV show "How I Met Your Mother", they are constantly lauded and joked about by casual sports fans in Seattle. You ask a person, any person who knows who the Mariners are and what they think of them, and (unless they've been under a rock the past 15 years) they'll say that they suck (or some variation). This team has such a bad image problem I'm surprised they managed to lure high-priced free agents in Robinson Cano and Nelson Cruz. Oh that's right, they just threw enough money at them, anything to get someone to be a bobblehead on Bobblehead Night.
The amount of things wrong with this team and the reasons they lose more often than they win are too numerous for me to name. Lloyd and Jack need to go. In fact, ownership needs to go (but you can't "fire" ownership, sadly). A lot of the players (while most of them not their fault) have under-performed and need to go. This team is such a mess not even a GM with OCD would want to take this team on. This organization had its "fifteen minutes of fame" from 1995-2001, but outside those years this baseball franchise is a complete and udder joke, failure, abomination, and travesty. Those words may sound harsh, but it's the truth. In the 32 years outside of 1995-2001, the Mariners have had just 7 WINNING SEASONS, eclipsing 90 wins just TWICE.
So I bid my farewell to the Mariners. I hope your ticket and merchandise sales plummet. If you're as fed up as I am, please join me in staying away from Safeco and refusing to buy merchandise. You do one of those two things and all you're doing is encouraging them to continue to do what they're doing and that's building a LOSER. There is something wrong with this organization, and it's not just the players. In fact, it's BARELY them. It's ownership and management. Unless ownership changes or they take the necessary steps to "reboot" this franchise, I will not be following the Mariners. I will be more than willing to come back and support this franchise once changes are made. But until then, Mariners, I bid thee farewell.
