Don Wakamatsu fired as Mariners manger

[TellItToTheDA]

This is really, really disappointing.

http://twitter.com/BrockandSalk/status/20729788652

Sources tell me Don Wakamatsu, Ty van Berkleo and Rick Adair have been let go from the Mariners.

[JosephC]

no way... this pisses the daylights out of me. How true is the source? Edit: Looks like a good source.

[TellItToTheDA]

Larry Stone confirms:

It's official: Wak, Adair , Van Burkleo and mental coach Steve Hecht fired. Darren Brown to be interim manager, Roger Hansen bench coach,

Carl Willis will be pitching coach

[clarknova]

The M's just got so much better with this move. Noticed they took "Believe Big" of their official website. Can't imagine why...

[JosephC]

Interesting post on Angelswin....

One day they are going to realize: STOP HIRING FORMER ANGELS

Bavasi
Washburn
Wakamatsu
Figgins
Kotchman
Spezio

[Igoe4Mariners]

Stupid move. This will set us back another 2-3 years at the least!

[JosephC]

Now the Sweeney move makes more sense. Remember that Sweeney signed with the M's in 2009 BECAUSE of Don Wakamatsu. This should have been writing on the wall, yet I failed to see it at the time. My guess is they told Sweeney that Wakamatsu's days were numbered and asked him if they should drop him on Waivers and he said "heck yeah, get me out of this h*ll hole".

[gskellig]

has there ever been a manager on their way to 100 loses that HASN'T been fired?
We all knew this would happen, they just better keep Z.

[JosephC]

Not that I can name off the top of my head, that's for sure. So on another note, what commercials do we have left that the Mariners can play? The golf one has Wakamatsu, he's gone. The Felix joking about Cliff's name, Cliff is gone. The bullpen commercial has Mark Lowe and Rick Adair in it, they're gone. The Ichiro one has Griffey in it, he's gone.

Wow, we can't play any of the commercials. Who wudda thunk?

[hamhead]

Guy just couldn't cut it . Needed Gonads for big calls and didn't have 'em