Kevin Mather should have left by now. The Mariners should have fired him after the Seattle Times reported in 2018 that before he became team president and CEO, he was one of three club leaders accused by women of inappropriate behavior in the workplace, resulting in financial settlements for the complainers.
Now think maybe, after Mather’s tone deafness and offensive remarks to the Bellevue Breakfast Rotary Club in a video call on Feb. 5, will the Mariners’ frontal property finally take action? He should be fired by the time you read this. His chilling musings, some more out of place than others, are pieces of evidence A through Z as to why many players and fans despise owners. If this is how property forms really think, why should they be trusted?
Perhaps Mather is extreme with his discriminatory comments about former Japanese pitcher Hisashi Iwakuma and Dominican top players Julio Rodriguez, and what he saw as the difficulty …