Can we start a thread on some intelligent moves that the team could take to improve the defense? The most obvious moves are to move Ibanez from LF to DH, play Reed regularly, and find a better first baseman. However, the defensive problems go deeper than just LF and 1B.

Yes, ever week numbers are sent out to everyone in the company to show every employees performance for that period. It also shows your pay and where you rank among the other 175+ employees of the company. But I think you missed the point. The point is it doesn’t help anyone to point fingers of blame at them. It helps to coach them to do a better job. This stunt was very unperductive and won’t help the moral of the club one bit.

that stunt lowered him a notch or two in my eyes. I hope to hear him apologize for it soon – he’s under a lot of stress and I can certainly understand a momentary lapse of judgement. But he really does need to apologize to the players, they are not children.

I find very interesting that after McLaren went off on his tirade, Bavasi tells the press that “he could have said that a month ago.”

Why in the world is Bavasi telling the press that? Why did he have to make it public? And why is he saying that a month after he supposedly wanted to McLaren to drop a bunch of F-bombs to give the illusion that things are going to change around here, %&#*$^@&*!

While Bavasi may have been a nice guy except for that bumbling idiocy that is his baseball managing, I think he’s finally getting to the point where he has to throw McLaren under the bus to save his job.

This may bode well for the purging of the front office (Bill does it, then Chuck does it, etc.) but it makes Bavasi even more of a delusional jerk still running the team. Not only do the players have to “take responsibility” for his mess but geez, guys, Mac could have said that a month ago and that’s the real problem here! Swear up a storm earlier in the season, Johnny! Come on!(™GOB, Arrested Development)

[MARINERS ITS MARINERS NO APOSTROPHE ARRGGHHHH]

This moderator was so blinded by no-apostrophe rage that he left one out of “it’s.”

[MARINERS ITS MARINERS NO APOSTROPHE ARRGGHHHH]

But apostrophe and castastrophe are so close. And clearly the catastrophe key is stuck in the down position on Bavasi’s keyboard.

Fine. But is your performance quantified and recorded for all time? Can anybody who knows how to spell your name look up exactly how you did your job on any given day? Are your performances totalled at the end of the year, added to your career totals, and compared to all your peers who have ever done your job over the last hundred+ years? If you do really, really well over the course of your career, is there a place that thousands of people visit every year where they’ll put up a plaque with your likeness and accomplishments? In short, are you working for just a paycheck, or are there larger forces at work that might cause you to strive and take pride in your performance even on the worst days, and the worst years?

Doesn’t MLB have a prohibition
against owning both an NFL and MLB team?
Or do you propose that Allen sell the Seahawks ?