Wow Servais with an Epic quote. Something is up.

[bpj]

I didn't get my house massively subsidized by public funds
I didn't promise to spend big beginning in 2021
I didn't save a quarter of a billion dollars in payroll during the rebuild
I didn't spend almost $100M in Luxary suite upgrades and Bars and Restaurants.
I didn't make a MLB leading $84M in profit in 2022
My house didn't go up 29% in value last year.

Other than that, GREAT Analogy!

It's such a moronic request. However he's come to it, it's his asset. How'd you like it if some dumbass came up to you and implored you to sell your stock portfolio? SELL ALL YOUR STOCKS! SELL! You don't know what you're doing in my subjective opinion!

A more apt analogy would be stakeholders calling for a CEO to be replaced.

Dtrain already pointed out why. The public helped fund the Mariners.

Equating it to a private persons portfolio or home sale that has zero impact on anybody else doesn't work.

[acctingman]

50-112

Book it

[Donn Beach]

I didn't get my house massively subsidized by public funds
I didn't promise to spend big beginning in 2021
I didn't save a quarter of a billion dollars in payroll during the rebuild
I didn't spend almost $100M in Luxary suite upgrades and Bars and Restaurants.
I didn't make a MLB leading $84M in profit in 2022
My house didn't go up 29% in value last year.

Other than that, GREAT Analogy!

It's such a moronic request. However he's come to it, it's his asset. How'd you like it if some dumbass came up to you and implored you to sell your stock portfolio? SELL ALL YOUR STOCKS! SELL! You don't know what you're doing in my subjective opinion!

A more apt analogy would be stakeholders calling for a CEO to be replaced.

Dtrain already pointed out why. The public helped fund the Mariners.

Equating it to a private persons portfolio or home sale that has zero impact on anybody else doesn't work.

The state funded a stadium and leasted it to the mariners, the mariners are obligated to honor the lease. They are making money, isn't that's what capitalism is about? Should they have built their own stadium? Probably, but they didn't

[bpj]

It's such a moronic request. However he's come to it, it's his asset. How'd you like it if some dumbass came up to you and implored you to sell your stock portfolio? SELL ALL YOUR STOCKS! SELL! You don't know what you're doing in my subjective opinion!

A more apt analogy would be stakeholders calling for a CEO to be replaced.

Dtrain already pointed out why. The public helped fund the Mariners.

Equating it to a private persons portfolio or home sale that has zero impact on anybody else doesn't work.

The state funded a stadium and leasted it to the mariners, the mariners are obligated to honor the lease. They are making money, isn't that's what capitalism is about? Should they have built their own stadium? Probably, but they didn't

The state didn't fund Dtrains house or stock portfolio, see the difference?

The Mariners have done a fine job of making money. Good for them, I guess.

But I don't believe "the state" helped fund the stadium so the team would make piles of money. They did it because they want a winning baseball team.

[Donn Beach]

They did it to keep the team from moving which they didn't

[bpj]

They did it to keep the team from moving which they didn't

Looking back, probably would have been better off moving instead of being led by a bunch of poors.

[Donn Beach]

Yeah, it's how they treated the basketball team. Of course it isn't the same owners. The owner when the stadium deal was made was Hiroshi Yamauchi

[bpj]

Yeah, it's how they treated the basketball team. Of course it isn't the same owners. The owner when the stadium deal was made was Hiroshi Yamauchi

Amazing that Dipoto/Servais have been in control longer than Stanton.

[Donn Beach]

They were spending more money when Dipoto was first hired weren't they, before the step back

[Donn Beach]

OT for Goodfellas enthusiasts. That's Irwin winkler who Sylvester Stallone absolutely hates. Accuses him of stealing the Rocky franchise. Calls him a blood sucking vampire in social posts

People seemed to hate Goodfellas when it was first shown

According to Scorsese, that kind of commitment characterized all of his collaborations with Winkler. “I don’t know if the pictures would have happened if Irwin hadn’t been there,” he said. When Scorsese ran into trouble on “Goodfellas” after what Winkler described as a “disastrous” test screening, the producer fought for Scorsese’s vision to remain intact. “We had 39 walkouts in the first 15 minutes,” Winkler said. “It was probably the worst recruited audience screening I’ve ever attended. And by the way, it was at least 90 percent the same movie that’s now considered a classic, so I have no idea what those folks in Van Nuys were thinking.”