[外電] 水手隊GM Jerry Dipoto回應球迷的說法

Jerry Dipoto Enrages Seattle Mariners' Fans with Press Conference Comments

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Seattle Mariners President of Baseball Operations Jerry Dipoto enraged the
Mariners community online with his comments at the end of season press
conference.

Seattle Mariners President of Baseball Operations Jerry Dipoto did his best
to enrage M's fans on Tuesday afternoon at the end of the season press
conference.

Let's back up first and establish a few facts:

1) One year after making the playoffs for the first time since 2001 and
winning a playoff series, the Mariners missed the playoffs by one game. Afterwinning 90 games each of the last two years, they won 88 games this year,
again, missing the playoffs by one game.

2) The Mariners are the only team in baseball to have never appeared in a
World Series.

3) After the M's were eliminated from playoff contention, Mariners' team
leaders spoke up and encouraged ownership to spend more money to try to make
the team better, similar to what the Texas Rangers have done.

Now, to Tuesday, and Dipoto's comments:


Jerry Dipoto says focusing on winning the World Series could have left the
Mariners “stuck in the mud”


“We’re actually doing the fan base a favor in asking for their patience to
win the World Series.”


Dipoto said that he's essentially playing the long game with the franchise
and that if the team were to win 54 percent of its games over a 10-year
period, they'd have a great chance of eventually landing in the World Series.

He added that the team is doing the fanbase a favor by essentially building ateam that's always good, as opposed to selling out for one year.

Time and place, Jerry.

That's not what the fanbase wants to hear. While it may be true that the M's
have built something sustainably good over the last three years, the fanbase
wants to know how the team can get over the hump. This offseason, fans were
told that the franchise wanted to win the World Series, and now its being
told by its front office that it needs to be more patient?

The M's fans have been patient for nearly 50 years of existence.

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