Kevin Mather should be gone by now. The Mariners should have fired him after the Seattle Times reported in 2018 that, before becoming the team’s president and CEO, he was one of three club executives accused by women of misconduct in the workplace, resulting in financial arrangements for claimants.
Think that maybe now, after Mather’s deaf and offensive remarks to the Bellevue Breakfast Rotary Club in a video call on February 5, the Mariners head-on-the-sand property will finally come into play? He needs to be fired the moment you read this. His meritorious daydreams, one more mistaken than the other, are evidence from A to Z on why many players and fans despise the owners. If this is how the types of owners really think, why are any of them reliable?
Perhaps Mather is at the extreme with his discriminatory comments about former Japanese pitcher Hisashi Iwakuma and the dominant Dominican candidate Julio Rodriguez, and what he perceived as the difficulty …