The decade-long (well, more like 3.5 decades-long) Shitshow in SoDo added another casualty today, as Eric Wedge joined Lou Piniella and Mike Hargrove in the esteemed club of managers who have quit on the Seattle Mariners organization (since 2002). At this point, we wouldn’t be surprised if Hiroshi Yamauchi’s will states that Howard Lincoln and Chuck Armstrong shall remain the team’s CEO and President, respectively, until the day they die. Due to the fact both of them are soulless vampires, that day is never coming.
#Mariners manager Wedge informs team he won’t be back next season. Good guy, but mgr only as good as his players.
— Paul Silvi (@paulsilvi) September 27, 2013
Eric Wedge: “It’s got to the point where it’s painfully obvious to me that I just wasn’t going to be able to move forward w/ this org.
— Curtis Crabtree (@Curtis_Crabtree) September 27, 2013
Wedge: “We see things differently and we talked about it but it just got to the point where I couldn’t continue to move forward.”
— Curtis Crabtree (@Curtis_Crabtree) September 27, 2013
Wedge: “Ultimately I didn’t feel like I could continue to manage here w/ the circumstance the way they are.”
— Curtis Crabtree (@Curtis_Crabtree) September 27, 2013
Wedge said team apporached w/ prospect of possible 1-yr extension last year. He didn’t feel that was “proper enorsement for rebuilding team”
— Curtis Crabtree (@Curtis_Crabtree) September 27, 2013
Three mangers. THREE! Have flat out QUIT on the #Mariners since the end of ’02. Piniella, Hargrove, now Wedge. This is a crisis of failure.
— Matt Pitman (@mattpitman) September 27, 2013
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