Jim Riggleman is Dumb, or He Thinks You Are
As we inch closer to the trade deadline, everyone in baseball knows that the Mariners are selling. Raul Ibanez is on a lot of teams’ watch lists, as is Adrian Beltre and Erik Bedard at minimum. Those three — and many other Mariners — are strong candidates to be wearing another uniform on August 1st. Only Jim Riggleman doesn’t see it that way. The manager says injuries (not ineptitude nor lack of talent) has been the problem, and wonders how good the team could be if everyone was healthy:
“It would really be interesting to see what we could do if we have the whole group,” Riggleman said. “It’s been that way since April, and I don’t think we really know what we have this year until we get it all out here. You hate to abandon it too quickly.”
That’s a nominee for the dumbest quote of all-time. We all know what we have this year. We have the worst team in baseball, a team that hasn’t suffered enough serious injuries to be able to use that as an excuse.
Maybe he’s just saying that to be nice to his players. I don’t know. But he’s treating Mariner fans like a bunch of idiots if he thinks we’re gonna believe a word of it.
