It should have happened weeks ago, but I'll take it..

Is it legitimately time to place some blame on (& consider replacing) Jeff Pentland? Most of the hitters are on pace to have career worst years,

Just for the record, my all time favorite manager, who did things the way he felt would help the team win, was Billy Martin. I hated Steinbrenner every time he fired Billy. But Bill was a winner, wherever he went.

Next would be Gil Hodges who guided my Mets to that fantastic pennant in 1969. I liked Joe Torre when he was a player-manager for the Mets in the mid 70's, but he later got mired in groupthink.

Felix was toast after he gave up that home run to make it 6 to 1. But for some strange reason, he was kept in there. Why? Because he hadn't gotten his 100 pitches yet. This is groupthink in reverse. If you are pitching ineffectively, you must stay in to get your 100 pitches. If you are pitching very effectively, you must come out after 100 pitches.

Unlees you play for the Yankees, then you come out after 80 to 90 pitches so the revolving door can operate.

Every morning I wake up and think that it is a good day, because we are one day closer to the end of the McLaren experiment. I thought he sucked as a third base coach 10+ years ago, and his managing seems to be no different.

I think my days would be even better if I also knew we were a day closer to the end of Howard Lincoln's reign of terror in Seattle. He's a clown.

Dave8557: We Twinkies were treated to one year of Billy-ball in 1969 I think. Let's see, division champs and Rod Carew steals home...SEVEN times. WTF? Will there be ONE steal of home in the American League this year? Billy punches out Dave Boswell in an alley in Detroilet which results in my favorite all-time quote from Boswell: "It's a forgotten memory".

Who couldn't like Sweet Lou, but otherwise my favorite was Tom Kelly, who managed a couple of ragamuffin Twins teams to 2 World Series championships. There was a guy who managed to keep everybody in the game.

Every time they show a shot of the dugout, all the Mariners players are all slouched on the bench, looking uninterested..

If after last nights tirade, these guys aren't up on the top step of the bench cheering for their teammates, I'm just going to give up on this group of losers..

That is why a guy like Mike Morse, who just loves the game (he was ALWAYS on the top step, with his head in the game) was so important to this team.. Losing him really hurts..