Why the Mariners' New Manager Hire is a Huge Mistake!

You know, if you're a player in that locker room, you know what that guy is. He's a puppet. He's going to be told by the brass upstairs what to do. Like, he's not going to have some, like, Pat Murphy deciding to go out there and leave a pitcher out for a couple of more batters or when to go get Mizorowski or when to go put Ashby in the game. Like, the gut feel that comes from baseball because you've been around for a long time and you've been a great manager for a long time. I love Pat Murphy. I love the Brewers. I think that that is how baseball needs to go back to being with baseball. This is the antithesis of Pat Murphy. And maybe that's the point. But so often in Major League Baseball, players, when things zag, right, when things go like that way, normally that's where baseball follows, right? It happens in football, happens in basketball, where all of a sudden, if you've got the old crusty guy, other teams are going to want the old crusty guy. Nope. The Mariners are like, forget that. We want a 36-year-old dude who's never been a manager on any level. Yeah. Sorry. The Mariners are a bet against, if we play baseball, they're a bet against next year with this move. Like this is, no, I, no, I'm not in, I'm not in on this move. Not by any means. I'm not in on this move. I do believe in experience. I do believe in, in the actual managerial mind that you have to be able to be a leader of men in a clubhouse that you play 162 freaking games. He's never been a manager in pro baseball at any level. He's just a puppet. To me, that is an installed by management puppet. Stop it. Sorry if you're a manager, a Mariners fan, but I think that's a horrible hire. I think that's an absolute horrible hire. That's a guy who's simply just going to take direction and take orders and be told what to do.