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I can’t take this anymore. I’m trying hard to just focus on these guys, but it’s not working when shit like this and this keeps happening. How in holy hell do we go from being inches from signing Tejada, a former MVP and a player who could single-handedly spark this team in August like he did to Oakland, to trading our only player off the bench who can hit lefties, overpaying for Scott Spiezio, and trade our shortstop for a player who is making $6 million when we could have had a player just like him for $1?? All the Mariners have managed to do this off-season is barely stay the same in offense (which was our huge hole the last few seasons) and SIGNIFICANTLY downgrade in defense, our biggest strength!! How does this make any sense?! Jesus Christ, what the hell is going on in Seattle?

I really can’t even see straight right now. My stomach is seriously churning and all I can think about is how little sense this truly makes. We saved no money in either of these deals. We signed Speizio to play a position that Bloomquist and/or Leone could have filled in for far less money and while they may be young and inexperienced, the Mariners seem to have a problem with letting their young players finally get a shot at playing. They’d rather go out and find a “class-act” guy and overpay for his sub-par performance.

U.S.S. Mariner did a great job summing up these two trades here and here.

Just humor me and go read what they had to say. It’s not pretty. I seriously don’t know how I stick by this team each year when management clearly doesn’t give a shit. There are some teams out there that suck every year because they don’t have any money, and that is understandable. After 6 or 7 years though, these teams are usually competing because their farm system has finally started producing. Then you’ve got the teams that suck just because the players they signed didn’t work out. That too is acceptable because, hey, they tried. And then you’ve got the teams that have the resources, have the ability to go out and get what they need, and are hindered due to stupidity. This is not acceptable because being the non-stupid person that I am and being able to realize a bad baseball player when I see one, I would hope that the upper management of a professional baseball team would also be able to evaluate players correctly. But the Mariners seem intent of being a 2nd rate team and until we get some new blood in there who actually wants to win, a la the Theo Epstein type, we are going to be home every October.

I hate baseball sometimes.