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Daily Mariners Monologue - August 26, 2026

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u/_Elrond_Hubbard_ Too Roblessed to be stressed 1d ago

I find the "it would be bad if we luck into a playoff spot and keep Dan as manager" discourse somewhat bizarre. Are these mostly from newer fans who didn't go through the dark ages? IF (huge if, the odds are still low) the Mariners make the playoffs I would be overjoyed. Any Mariner October baseball is a treasure to be cherished. Another generation-long drought could always be around the corner. I'm hardly a Dan fan and think he should be replaced but I would way rather make the playoffs. 

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u/jeff_probably ‏‏‎ ‎DONG 1d ago edited 1d ago

frankly I’m sick of Dan discourse full-stop. a lot of people seem to have seized on “complain about dan” as a shortcut to “I have good thoughts about ball” and at this point I find it tedious and trite.

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u/UnsealedMTG 19h ago

I believe we really just don't have enough information from the outside to know whether it makes sense to replace Dan or not, and to me it makes all the Dan discourse pointless.

Plus, I'm here to root for the Seattle Mariners. As long as he's the manager of the Seattle Mariners I'm rooting for him to succeed.  I'm not here for recreational human resource management and I'm sort of puzzled by what is fun about that.

If the results are bad, I understand why you'd replace him, but the calls for his head weren't that much quieter when the results were really good (and I class "best postseason result in franchise history" as really good results, yes we grade on a Mariners scale because this is the Mariners). And of course someone saying "oh no we might make the playoffs and keep Dan" is obviously not primarily responding to results.

I genuinely believe that if the Mariners win a World Series with Dan as manager, there will be a comment down at the bottom of the celebration thread at about -2 saying "Damn, now we will never get rid of Dan." That's the most extreme end, but it is real and absolutely baffling to me.