Seattle Mariners President Says So Many Things He Shouldn't Have, a breakdown

seattle mariners president and i think

co-owner part owner

partial owner he did a appearance with a

rotary club

and he just was as honest as honest

gets which is bizarre because he said a

lot of things

that you shouldn't say in his opening

remarks these were not questions that

people asked him just his opening

statements

he said that they survived covid better

than most because of their low payroll

and because their tv deal is so good for

them bad for

bad for the other side our payroll was

as low as it was going to get

thank goodness and we also have a

television deal with root sports

and we punch well above our weight on

the television deal we got a lot more

than we probably deserved as compared to

other

similar size markets so all right so

clearly the seattle payroll is low it's

not a secret that's not a surprise

even him saying it isn't that big of a

deal everyone knows that they

reset or tanked or whatever you want to

say but openly saying that

you get more money than you deserve on

the tv deal i'm sure future negotiations

are going to be

pretty fun when the tv guys can just be

like uh

we're gonna do less than last time

because that guy said we should

so easy negotiations for root sports

let's move on there was no chance you

were gonna see these young players

at t-mobile park we weren't going to put

them on the 40-man roster

we weren't going to start the service

time clock you might have seen my big

tummy out there in left field

you would not have seen our young

players our prospects

playing at t-mobile park so if you don't

know anything about what he's talking

about here the way baseball works is

there's a service time

timer as soon as a young guy gets called

up there's like three years of

of controlled costs they make the

minimum and then there's three years of

arbitration

which means they go to an arbiter and

they they figure out a salary based on

how that person has performed and how

the people close to them

form so there's like six uh years of

control once that service time clock

starts that starts winding down

so a lot of the owners and gm's

manipulate that

by refusing to call up players until

they want to start paying them i guess

even if they're

crushing the minor leagues we've seen it

a lot chris bryant glaber torres a lot

of

teams do this and a lot of people have

tried to file grievance and

usually the gm's were like no he needed

to work on his defense

no he needed to work on off speed

pitches he needs to see more and they

win the grievance

tough for him to win the grievance now

because he's saying no matter what

there's no way we were going to start

that service time clock he used the

exact

honest words it's bizarre and he does

this

multiple times throughout the 45 minute

session i have a couple more queued up

found

in april you won't see him on april 1st

but in by by mid

april you will see so that's a picture

he's talking about

saying you won't see him on april 1st

but by mid april because once the

service time

clock gets to the right place they'll

call them up

so i mean on the mound

in april you won't see him on april 1st

but in by by mid april you will see a

young man named

logan gilbert so logan gilbert file a

grievance he's the real deal

he's a top of the rotation pitcher uh

and i can't wait to see him at t-mobile

park

and uh there's a certain pitcher that i

won't mention

who was in the bullpen at t-mobile park

during our summer camp

and this is all right so this is what i

found super interesting

the dude did have a bit of a conscience

like he's so open and honest

when he got to this part he says there

is a picture that i'm not gonna mention

i was like what

you're mentioning everything you

shouldn't mention how is

this line drawn when all the other lines

haven't because it gets crazier as we go

he gives enough clues to figure out he's

talking about sam delaplane

he's telling a story about how evan

white got this huge contract and the

union said he shouldn't have signed it

and then he says this pitcher that i

won't mention but we invited him to camp

and he's gonna come up in 2022 so

basically they have his clock

figured out it doesn't matter how sam

delaplane pitches

this year there's no way he's going to

crack the team what he's saying right

now

and he says that sam delaplane aka the

kid he won't mention

said this and this was reported by one

of the coaches

the players were sitting around talking

about evan white and

you know he made a mistake signing this

long-term deal and duh-duh-duh

and this particular pitcher who is um

going to be here in 2022

he said if somebody offers me 23 million

dollars

guaranteed find me a pen as fast as you

can

i'm signing so we're going to do that

our ownership is committed we're

eager to to sign these players up we're

willing to take that risk

so there you go i mean sam congrats you

might have a contract coming your way

and that's their strategy it's kind of

interesting he's openly talking about

everyone knows it exists but just openly

talking about it just like

service time manipulation everyone knows

it exists and they do that that's not

the shocking part

shocking part that is on video and

audio that he knows is being recorded he

just

doesn't dance around at all just

straight up says it the union

has hearts in their eyes right now about

all the grievances

and all the things they can bring up at

negotiations let's keep going

jared kellnick we've been talking about

him for a year and a half now

he will be in left field in april

he's a 21 year old player who

is quite confident we offered him a

long-term deal

six-year deal for substantial money with

options to go farther and

after pondering it for several days and

talking to the union

he has turned us down and in his words

uh he's going to bet on himself he

thinks after six years

he's going to be such a star player that

the

seventh eighth ninth year options will

be undervalued

he might be right he might be right we

offered and he turned us down

i mean the insight that this rotary club

is getting is awesome if you're in

seattle

i mean our rotary club membership's just

gonna boost up because you get all the

inside goods i mean that's just him

talking about contracts that

i don't none of that was public i don't

believe kyle seeger

this is probably this stuff's good he

mentions kyle seeger a couple times kyle

seeger has an option next year

uh they're not picking it up kyle seeger

this is probably his

last season as a mariner uh

okay i don't think they knew that kyle

seeger's wife tweeted out i guess we

should put our house on the market

because we're not coming back really

motivating kyle senior to keep playing

he brings up kyle seeger later in the q

a

and he brings him up to talk about how

good

of a leader he is but he opens with this

and i have to compliment you know kyle

seeger

is a veteran player uh he's

probably overpaid why why even say that

who's uh why even say that like there's

no need to just throw that

dig there to the [ __ ] rotary club

next

we lost 2.9 billion dollars last year

and

we have taken the position that there

are

180 free agents still out there on

february 5th

unsigned and sooner or later

these players are going to turn their

hat over

and come with hat in hand looking for a

contract

so just actually gets the hat

out to use it as a prop

i don't know who the wii is because he

says our industry lost 2.9 billion and

we

is we the mariners or is we all the

owners because if it's the latter that's

crazy collusion if it's the former it's

just like dude you're the

you're losing losing his franchise you

haven't seen the playoffs in forever

why are you bragging about lowballing

players

it doesn't seem that's just bizarre to

put that on record

just bizarre yeah we're gonna get the

scraps at the end when they come

groveling because we refuse to pay them

what they're worth

rotary club just claps hell yeah

[ __ ] players it frustrates me for

instance

oh here we go this is the good stuff

this is what's getting everyone mad

he was asked about players

learning english and what are they doing

to help players learn english

and here's just a delight of an answer

we just rehired iwakuma

iwakumo was a pitcher for us for a

number of years wonderful human being

his english is terrible uh he wanted to

get back into the game he wanted to

and he came to us and we quite frankly

want him as

our asian scout interpreter

what's going on in the japanese league

uh he's coming to spring training

and i made the statement i'm tired of

paying his interpreter

because when he was a player you know we

pay my ex but we also had to pay 75 000

a year to have an interpreter with him

um

his english suddenly got better his

english got better when we told him that

so

uh uh

so

all right one

the whole [ __ ] press conference is

him bragging about being cheap and how

cheap the mariners are

they could pay millions of dollars for

players but 75 grand for an interpreter

make that player

perform better and feel as comfortable

as you can terrible

they're bragging about undervaluing

getting more money getting less money

the whole thing is about business and

not baseball and getting cheaper dollar

which it is a business and i understand

that but like

to be this upfront about it's just kind

of just bizarrely honest

anyway this dude needs a dumb

interpreter like like the foreign

players

they may be able to speak english in

conversations

but they don't want to use broken

english in their second language

to be put on record when people are

recording them so they'd rather have an

interpreter say

reword things uh don't say that we

should say this instead help them out to

make sure they don't make a fool of

himself

this dude needs a dumb interpreter

imagine if this rotary club

spoke japanese and he had an interpreter

there

helping him that interpreter would be

nudging him and being like

hey probably let's not say this i'll

change it and make it

much better in japanese he needed a dumb

interpreter

so here he is [ __ ] up in his native

language talking about how

he's pissed at players for [ __ ] it up in

their second language

tell us about uh julio rodriguez uh

julio rodriguez has got a personality

bigger than all of you combined he is uh

he is loud he is uh his english is not

tremendous

why why is that a point of emphasis at

all

they literally just said can you tell us

about this young stud you got in the

minors

yeah his personalities a lot is english

sucks

no need they didn't ask how his english

was

uh him and kalanick are very good

friends he's a year behind

kelanek he will probably be here in 20

everybody says 2021

he won't be here until 2022 or 2023. no

we're not gonna start that service time

on him early everyone says he's ready

for 2021.

hey julio no matter what you do in the

minors this year

and maybe even next year we ain't

bringing you up it's uh

no it's not uh you don't get to earn it

it's just kind of how we feel about it

there's not enough parking so i can get

away with charging 30 40 50

to park in my tiny little parking garage

across the street

so i don't let my employees park there i

have them parked

down on the other side of um century i

guess um

so this question they asked like what's

your biggest concern right now

what's a pain point for you kevin mather

and he said

that the neighborhood surrounding the

field

isn't great and because there's limited

parking

he gets to charge a lot of money for

parking which you can see makes him

smile

and because he can charge a lot of money

for parking he makes his employees park

on the other side

of town in an area that he doesn't think

is safe

so he is so that's his biggest concern

um you can let him park closer

you can let him park closer marco

gonzalez

oh here's a good little drama beef story

that he tells us about mike leake and

marco gonzalez

is um has really taken a leadership role

in 20 uh good story in 2019 we had a

veteran pitcher that we have since

traded to the arizona diamondbacks if

you want to figure out who it is

just say it man you just say it you just

gave

i'm not going to tell you what number

i'm talking about but

two plus two equals said number like

just say mike leake

we know who you're talking about uh who

had a

you know attitude he he'd been around

he's been there done that

and our bullpen coach was talking to the

starting pitchers about this was in

spring training

and he was talking about um

you know when you go out and throw your

bullpens you know it's only 20 pitches

let's make sure it's quality

and he was given a speech um

and uh the pitcher who's no longer with

us

kind of rolled his eyes and said don't

tell me how to throw my bullpens yet

and uh as the meeting broke up

um marco gonzalez uh with a

the help of a couple bullpen guys uh

pushed this particular picture into the

locker and said listen if you want to be

a dick

be a dick but you did quietly um

uh and you know for a young kid to do

that good for him

good for him it's a good story again

rotary club memberships got to be

booming baseball fans joining left and

right this

type of insight they get this is like

a podcast episode that should be should

have been released

in the year 2040

and then it would make sense statute of

limitations kind of up

right now not great i got another little

tip i don't even know what this one is

let's see

kalanick is not happy that he's the

fifth highest prospect on baseball

america

and rodriguez is the fourth highest

prospect but

little things like that bother kalanick

wow earlier they said they were best

friends

even though rodriguez supposedly doesn't

speak here in english

uh what a mess man what a mess his mug

says something like

his mug says women's

lives our passion uh same dude that's

got a bunch of sexual

uh allegations against him so

there's your seattle mariners i mean

dumb enough to say these things in front

of a mic just

so honest it's crazy

valuing being cheap more than anything

like this dude went to the rotary club

and he was like what can i do to impress

these people

and let them know the seattle mariners

are doing good things

are we winning games no but we're saving

money

that'll impress him honestly every point

he had

he thought the most impressive thing was

how they saved money so

he apologized i i take that back

someone wrote an apology on his behalf

and he probably said yeah send that and

uh i don't know that's where we're at so

it's great insight the union is probably

salivating it's great insight if you're

a mariner's prospect

you're probably like hey all that kind

of sucks

now you guys know kevin mather president

of the seattle mariners

the hell out of the rotary club giving

him all the secrets

dumb