Heartbreaking: #John W. Stanton owner of Seattle Mariners is gone….

Heartbreaking: #John W. Stanton owner of Seattle Mariners is gone….Mariners, Kraken and Trail Blazers. Xfinity may have provided an impetus for their actions, but Seattle’s ownership still has ultimate culpability for either not anticipating it, or not having a better plan to offset it. And let’s not forget the previous three offseasons when there was maximum expectation and minimal investment.

It’s not enough to say you want to win a division title and bring a World Series championship to the city and then do so little that it appears the organization will remain the only franchise to never appear in a World Series until MLB expands to 32 teams.

Over the past 22 years, there have been so many unkept promises and one postseason appearance. Seattle has hosted as many All-Star Games as it has MLB playoff games in that span.

Benefit of doubt is earned not given.

The last remaining shreds of credibility the organization might have carried with the fan base have been decimated in a disastrous offseason. It started with Dipoto’s comments and tone in a highly criticized end-of-season news conference. The offseason went from bad to dreadful, skipping “worse” in the progression of failure with the revelation that the team’s payroll budget is so limited that Dipoto and GM Justin Hollander had to create payroll dollars just to add p

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