Lee’s on with Mitch, and apparently Lee has “can’t read a newspaper or listen to the radio” syndrome. Almost every question Mitch has asked (of which too many were softballs IMO, but that’s another tale for another time) had some permutation of “I haven’t seen/heard anything about that other than what discussions we had” involved.

he’s the interim GM, he’s not going to talk about any thing that happened or didn’t happen. Heck, most GMs won’t talk about what actually happened or not.

Maybe Lincoln lives in a bunker

Like another well-known fascist maniac in world history?!

This interview is dropping my opinion of Lee… you can tell by listening to his voice and how he’s saying things that he’s thinking of a lot of his answers off the top of his head…

He had a great opportunity to inspire some form of confidence with the question about waiver trades, and then gave a complete non-answer. Way to go, Lee. You just shot your fan confidence in the foot.

“The fans know what the marketing department tells them to know!” -H. Lincoln

Maybe Lincoln lives in a bunker, where his workers only tell him good things.

Either that, or he’s really what he seems to be in interviews.

Fans know this, Riggleman. Fans know this Pelekoudos.

“The fans know what the marketing department tells them to know!” -H. Lincoln

Well we gained a game today. Now we’re only 27 games back, and 21.5 out of the wildcard. So we really have to buckle it up and get after it. I mean if we don’t have Putz back in full form before stretching Morrow out to be a starter, then this whole season might go down the drain.

The Mariners in 2008 are under Bavasi Lincoln are not only the drain but the entire sewage plant. Why would Howard Lincoln allow his GM to field such crappy teams? I mean if the Rays can go from worst to first, imagine what new management and ideals can do for the M’s!

That sounds about right. Silva’s ceiling is Felix’s floor.

Seattle manager Jim Riggleman said the team would like to give Morrow a chance to prove himself a starter by the end of the season. For that to happen…

Listening to the pre-game show, I realized I just really hate listening to Riggleman talk about the team. I’ve never met him, he might be a great guy. Given some talent to manage, he might even be an okay manager. But the things he says in interviews makes it sound like he thinks the fans are morons. They’ve only had 41 save opportunities all year. They’re not good enough to need a closer. The game’s usually over by the fifth inning because 3/5ths of the starting rotation sucks. Fans know this, Riggleman. Fans know this Pelekoudos. Please figure it out yourselves and quit trying to bamboozle the fans people who used to come to the games.