Mariners fans are ready to fire Kevin Mather
Seattle Mariners president Kevin Mather spoke at a rotary breakfast and some of his comments have fans ready for the team to fire him immediately.
This weekend, Seattle Mariners team president Kevin Mather is stealing headlines across the country for all the wrong reasons. Mather spoke at a Bellevue Breakfast Rotary Club on Saturday and there’s a long list of absurd things he said.
Among those comments was saying that star prospect Julio Rodriguez’s English “isn’t tremendous” and that this is probably Kyle Seager’s last season with the team, while also revealing prospect Jarred Kelenic won’t make the Opening Day roster.
He also said former pitcher Hisashi Iwakuma’s English was terrible, and he complained about having to pay his translator $75,000 a year. As you might imagine, Mariners fans out there are not happy with Mather.
So Kevin Mather spoke for 45 minutes at the Bellevue Breakfast Rotary Club and went into some interesting specific detail. Thanks to @matthew102402 for transcribing. Mather stated they had a terrible year financially, but better than most and yet....https://t.co/uYakmaQ6W9 pic.twitter.com/K2SFDYYFzk
— Darren Gossler (@Goose1701) February 21, 2021
Mariners fans are calling for Kevin Mather to lose his job as soon as possible
A look at Twitter on Sunday tells you how incredibly frustrated Mariners fans are with Mather. Matter of fact, if it were up to them, they’d want Mather to be out of a job by Monday.
The Mariners haven’t done much this offseason and haven’t been to the playoffs in 20 years, how much worse could get it?
— alexSSN (@alexSSN) February 21, 2021
Kevin Mather: pic.twitter.com/lscHyLkcVm
The man’s name is Kevin Mather; he settled his way out of contributing to a workplace hostile to women. He’s now guilty of racism against two groups.
— Keith Olbermann❎❌🙅🏼♂️ (@KeithOlbermann) February 21, 2021
He’s not going to be president/CEO of the Mariners very long. This is going to get very big, very fast. https://t.co/QeGD2S18ee
Dear Kevin Mather, pic.twitter.com/1Zq4oXTY4f
— Shane (@swest13r) February 21, 2021
John Stanton should fire Kevin Mather, but through an interpreter
— alexSSN (@alexSSN) February 22, 2021
Quite possibly the worst way you could talk about a beloved pitcher in the Mariners organization that wanted to come back as a coach. I think this video might be the straw that finally gets him out of Seattle. Good riddance. #FireKevinMather
— 👑 Dae 👑 (@Daeholee_Grail) February 21, 2021
https://t.co/rZsjjqKODQ
The fact that the #FireKevinMather hashtag is catching serious steam tells you how angry Seattle fans are. It’s easy to understand why. Mather has come out and made some simply offensive remarks regarding the team.
Here he thought he was being funny or coy, but the opposite is the case. How do you think the players feel about this right now, especially guys like Rodriguez? There’s just no room for this kind of talk, period.
We’ll see if the Mariners come out and release a statement this weekend, but the damage sure has been done already.
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