Kevin Mather would have already disappeared. The Mariners should have fired him after the Seattle Times reported in 2018 that before becoming president and CEO of the team, he was one of three club executives accused of misconduct in place of work, which led to financial settlements for the complainants.
Do you think that perhaps now, after Mather’s deaf and offensive words at the Bellevue Breakfast Rotary Club in a video call on Feb. 5, the sailors ’property will finally take action? You should be fired when you read this. His meritorious reflections, one more wrong than the next, are the samples from A to Z why many players and fans have contempt for the owners. If that’s how property types really think, why trust any of them?
Perhaps Mather is at the extreme with his discriminatory statements about former Japanese player Hisashi Iwakuma and top Dominican prospect Julio Rodriguez, and what he perceived as the difficulty …