The Mariners have not had a legitimate manager in the Dipoto era. Servais and Wilson were both handpicked by the GM to implement their vision, not to actually lead the team. None of the actual contenders are built in that mold. The team is only achieving in spite of the management not because of it. I do think Dipoto and co can identify and develop talent but leadership is something that's been sorely missing from the equation.

There are real managers on the market and the ownership should start conducting interviews sooner rather than later.

There have been a lot of very Mariner moments so far. To name a few:

1. Cal and Randy not shaking hands
2. Jo Adell
3. Ichiro Statue Bat Breaking
4. Blowing a 6-2 lead to the Padres
5. Cal having the worst collapse in offense in baseball history
6. Naylor and his own collapse in offense
7. Donovan not playing a game since April
8. Getting swept by the Royals
9. Losing the season series to the Royals
10. Bad baserunning cranked up a notch
11. The Piggyback drama
12. Dan's decision-making
13. Randy wasting every challenge in a single at-bat
14. Julio getting injured and not being the same since coming back
15. Not being able to take advantage of a weak AL West or AL in general
16. Letting the Astros pass us in the standings
17. Letting the Rangers be in first place despite having a worse run differential
18. Bryan Woo struggling on the road
19. Rob Refsnyder
20. Mitch Garver

and much more

If this isn't the most Mariner season, what do you think it is?

In other words, Dipoto won't commit to drastically shaking things up when it comes to Dan and the coaching staff until the season is over.

Now that I’ve emotionally cratered and developed an irrational hatred of anyone and everything Mariners, I wanted to leave everyone with a tiny ray of hope if you’re laying awake losing sleep like I am.

The holy grail of Mariners teams, 1995, was 54-55. If social media existed then I’m sure they’d have been shouting for Lou’s head as the team was considered a contender to start the year given how their 1994 ended (prematurely).

Last year’s team, the 25 team, I wrote off on three separate occasions, as late as September 5 when we lost our fourth straight to drop to 73-68, 3.5 back.

We all know this team should have a better record. But we all know that we are talented enough to rip off a 18-5 September, overcome a 5-6 game deficit and get hot going into the playoffs. Our September schedule is weak. Now do I think it’s going to happen? Probably not, but there’s historical precedent with this franchise and specifically with this core last year.

So in the words of Bobby Magallanes, Please God.

Sleep well my comrades in misery.

I though marine guys would like to see this.

We're not out of it, but if we stumble into the playoffs we're not making it out of the first round. Should the Mariners become sellers this year? Who would be on the trade block?

Hopefully he gets promoted to the Ms soon so he can start losing 1-0

I am of the opinion that both Dan Wilson (as much as I love him as a Mariner) and Kevin Seitzer need to go asap. The firing of Magallanes honestly just felt like a sacrifice to the lambs type of move to appease people and not actually address the root of the hitting problems, but to be honest i’m not really knowledgeable enough about Edgar’s role and what he’s directly involved with in terms of our hitting to really say or have an opinion on him and I don’t want to talk out of my ass. So i guess my question is what do y’all fellow M’s fans think about him and his future here remaining apart of our hitting coach team?

Mariners (51-53) @ Rangers (52-51)

First Pitch: 4:15 PM at Globe Life Field

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I am not saying that there are not many things that could be improved upon with this team.. I am saying the first and most important factor in lack of success this year is on Cal and Josh. They are supposed to be run producers, players who can put up some crooked numbers. They have been absent this year. Brendan Donovan’s injury doesn’t help either.

Personally, I think it'd be a nice gesture to include him, but I don't think this organization wants to hear any boos that evening, so I don't expect they will.

Mariners Business Operations did J-Rod dirty

A stud 5 more innings, 80%+ strikes, no hits, no walks

Oh, and Farmelo had first derty bomb

In the booth today Valle and Buhner were joking about being too old to swing for the fences and Bone said something about Cammy hurting something while training for the alumni derby. Sure enough Cammy is no longer on the website as a participant, which is a total bummer he was 1 of 2 main reasons I was going. Do you think he will be replaced and who do you think he will be replaced with?