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Good one Art – I am in FULL agreement!

It would make sense for the M’s to load up unnecessarily on the middle infield. After all, they loaded up at 1B/DH with Morse, Morales, Smoak and Ibanez last season. They’re just following the pattern they’ve established.

Ted– Are you new to the M’s pathetic history, or an employee/ friend of the franchise trying to shore up their earned, well-deserved and long-lost credibility? We ‘fans’ are not stupid and pissed off– we’re justifiably angry; keenly aware of the Lincoln/Armstrong/Ellis duplicity in espousing a desire to win ballgames, field a team that could compete for the World Series rings; of their dishonesty regarding so much of what they’ve ‘reported’ to the media, their ‘poor me’ appropriation of the public coffers via the staged crocodile tears shed in public by Ellis, the lease concessions they obtained behind closed doors to the tune of about 5 million after the lease was negotiated and accepted, the way they tried to further bilk the public funding opportunity by trying to renege on the stadium overrun costs that were caused entirely by their own change orders, the way they have not–not–operated the facility entirely “for the public benefit” per their lease obligations… and their self-aggrandizing self-righteousness while they enrich themselves with neither apt risk for the reward they’ll reap, nor gratitude for the blatantly unearned windfall the public has given them as they sit on equity appreciation while returning a pitifully underperforming franchise to an otherwise deserving community. We sat through a sh—load of bad Kingdome stadium “experiences” witnessing the worst teams in the MLB and then funded a stadium that is the envy of MLB — a gilded palace gifted to the underserving who make not the slightest pretense–by their actions– of serving the debt they owe or even expressing gratitude for the trust we gave them and that they have disregarded over and over and over and over…
Nobody– nobody– seems to speak well of Lincoln, as an executive, a manager of people in his charge, as a community-builder, as a person or as the defacto looter of the franchise trust he has been handed. If such people exist, they are seemingly outnumbered by those who will testify here and elsewhere to his style and character, both. He holds the franchise–and even the board, apparently–captive and subject to his my-way-or-the-highway oversight by virtue of his relationship with the former majority owner from his previous ride with Nintendo in an expanding game market. He and Chuck got lucky and have unconscionably exploited that luck at the expense of the franchise and the community.
We have a right, and many would say an obligation as taxpayers, to be angry.