DEVELOPING: Wakamatsu...please leave Seattle...now!

Better times in Seattle/courtesy: onlineathens.com

Well...so goes the Don Wakamatsu era in Seattle. The woebegone Mariners have fired their manager...and three coaches in large part due to the teams 42-70 season.

The Mariners, one of 2009's darlings, couldn't translate that success in 2010. They made a ton of offseason moves, picking up Cliff Lee, Chone Figgins, Milton Bradley and others hoping to take that success one step beyond. It didn't work.

It had gotten bad enough that Wakamatsu got into an altercation with the aforementioned and under-perfomring Figgins in the dugout a couple of weeks ago.

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There is a scheduled 5pm press conference up in the Great Northwest, where GM Jack Zduriencik is expected to announce that Daren Brown, manager of the AAA Team in Tacoma will take over for the rest of the season.

Along with Wakamatsu, bench coach Ty Van Burkleo, pitching coach Rick Adair and performance coach Steve Hecht were let go. Nowhere does it mention that the guy who acquired all of the so-called talent on the team, taking the fall for such a weak hitting, poor pitching roster.

All that Seattle fans can do is cross their fingers and hope for the best.

For your viewing pleasure, Figgins vs. Wakamatsu, from July 24th.

Is The Mariners Season THAT Bad...??? Chone-Nuff...

The team has decent enough pitching, but their offense would be 33rd in the Majors if such an option were available...

The Seattle Mariners had to deal with the Ken Griffey, Junior retirement earlier this year. Now, they have players signed to large contracts going after managers...

In the dugout...

Here's the play that caused manager Don Wakamatsu's consternation, and then video from the dugout, that is until it gets pulled...
((HT: FSNW/MLB/MLB Advanced Media/joannesiano))


Last night's loss was the Mariners' 16 in their last 20 games...

"I didn't think there was much effort in that backup, and I made the decision to take him out of the ballgame," Wakamatsu said.

Wakamatsu said Figgins wouldn't be fined for insubordination.
Now, if he could only fine him for hitting .229 in the first year of a $36-million deal, right...???