Most likely, you know that the Seattle Mariners with the third worst record in Major League Baseball recently fired Manager Don Wakamatsu, who seemingly faltered from fallout in the Locker Room and with a show of No-confidence from the very Management that had previously hired him.
Wakamatsu, MLB’s first Asian Manager led the Mariners to an impressive winning season in his first season, last year, yet Wakamatsu who apparently never emerged from the shadow of perennial All Star Ken Griffey Jr. who unexpectedly retired Mid-season this year, seems to have been the Mariners Manager’s unraveling, as the Team now seems set to incur its second 100-loss season in the past three years…
And it seemingly was coincidence that I caught a part of a game broadcast earlier this summer where Rick Riz and the voice of the Mariners Dave Niehaus, were joined by ex-Mariner standout Jay Buhner, who once was the catalyst for Buhner BuzzCut nights, who dipped into the Wayback machine, fondly recalling his playing time for the legendary Lou Piniella, who’s just announced his retirement from MLB after nearly a half century.
Arguably the Mariners best-ever Manager, Piniella (1993-2002) led the team to four 90 win seasons, along with an electrifying 116 win season with such players as Buhner, Griffey Junior, Randy Johnson, Edgar Martinez and Alex Rodriguez, as “Sweet Lou” is the only Manager to ever lead the Mariners to the Playoffs along with being responsible for seven of it’s eleven winning seasons.
Meanwhile it seemed pretty funny that Barry Bonds, the all time Home Runs “leader*” would call and congratulate A-ROD to the 600 Home Run club… As with Piniella’s and Griffey’s retirement this year, is possibly the final ex-Mariner still playing from those Mariner Glory years…
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