The Seattle Mariners have fired manager Scott Servais and replaced him with former catcher Dan Wilson. The firing comes on the back of an absolutely repugnant 1-8 road trip, where the team had a chance to show their fortitude, come together, win some games and get back into the postseason race. Instead, everyone failed the manager, including Servais, who failed himself and couldn’t figure out a way to inspire the clubhouse to fight for him.

It’s pretty remarkable how a team with a 10-game lead over the AL West on June 18th (44-31) is now 5 games behind the Houston Astros on August 22nd (64-64). What an epic collapse! It’s not all on Scott Servais, as he can’t do much about the injuries to Julio Rodríguez and J. P. Crawford, but his management of the bullpen wasn’t good and the offense, as a whole, has massively underperformed and let the starting pitchers down time and time again. Aren’t those two areas where Servais has the ability to switch things up and maybe enact change?

To be totally honest, I knew the job was too big for Scott Servais after he brought in Robbie Ray, in the 9th inning, to pitch to Yordan Álvarez in Game 1 of the 2022 ALDS and he crushed a 3-run HR to walk it off for the Astros. That moment showed me the manager didn’t have a clue how to handle pressure and let the moment overwhelm him. Like sure, kudos to Scott for breaking the 20-year playoff drought, but since then he’s been a total disaster. The front office and ownership also need to be looked at closely too.

John W. Stanton, the majority owner of the Seattle Mariners since 2016, is one of the biggest frauds in pro sports. He’s only interested in making money, not spending money in order to put together the best roster to compete for a World Series. It’s sickening the way he preys on the passionate Seattle fans, who love baseball, and pretend he’s doing everything in his power to field a competitive team, all while counting gameday revenue and diving into a vault of coins like Scrooge McDuck. I only have one things to say to Mr. Stanton: SELL THE TEAM YOU FUCKING FRAUD!! It’s well past time the M’s have a real ownership group committed to winning.

Last October, after another late-season Seattle collapse, Jerry Dipoto held a press conference where he went on to preach patience to a fanbase, who’ve been more than patient enough, and explained his plan to win 54% of the time. What an absolute crock of shit!

It boggles my mind how someone with as poor of a track record as Jerry Dipoto, one postseason berth in 8 seasons, had the audacity to blame the fans, who are nothing but supportive, for the awful job he’s done as the main architect of the Seattle Mariners. His comments were truly distasteful. He apologized a day later, but the damage had been done. Personally, my faith in him evaporated that day.

The Seattle Mariners organization needs a day of reckoning. A total reset from the owner to the president to the general manager to the manager to the clubhouse staff to the ushers is absolutely imperative. No stone should go unturned, as this franchise has been an utter disappointment since it’s inception in 1977 (outside of 1995, 1997, 2000 & 2001). It’s time for the fans to stand together and demand a change!

Scott Servais had to go, but so do GM Justin Hollander, President of Baseball operations Jerry Dipoto and, especially, Owner John W. Stanton. As long as any of those people are involved in how this roster is constructed going forward then this organization will continue to flounder and slip furth into apathy.

I implore all Mariners fans to keep applying pressure via social media, letting them know how unhappy you are with the product, in addition to staying away from T-Mobile park. The only language these jokers understand is the bottom line. Time to hit them where it hurts.