I could not agree more with you Figgins is a cancer and has a head bigger than he needs to have. I will never pay for a game again as long as Figgins is a Mariner: I AM NOT PAYING FOR HIS SALARY.

Why would any manager want to coach for this organization? Players are not accountable for earning their salaries and coaches have no power. Disgusting.

As soon as I got the news (near 1pm) I flipped on the radio feed at work, expecting to hear Salk going a million miles an hour over this.. and was quickly reminded that they're not on mid-day anymore. This is one reason I don't like the time-change.. breaking news in Seattle sports generally doesn't come before 9am. I think the M's usually let their cats out around..12:30, right? Besides, Salk, I'm about as ready for you at 9am as I am for a beer, which is not very. 11am.. ok.. twist my arm.. but 9am, it's a little intense while I'm still rubbing the sleep out of my eyes. Oh, the Wak thing? Ehh.. Seemed like a nice guy but.. I was ready to see him go. I think letting the other coaches go is the bigger (and better) news.

why the M's will always be a low class, last place team. Yea, yea, I remember 1995, don't get your panties in a bunch all of you "Mariners fans". I have watched baseball since 1959 (4 years old) and to be honest, weak sports city = weak sports teams.

Don Wakamatsu was dealt a losing hand. Upper management couldn't resist the Griffy 'feel good' story, even though Grif's waning ability to produce would inevitably collide with his narcissism at some point during the season. Dr. Z played the sabermetric angle to a fault. Who needs a slugger when you can run the bases and field your zone? This year's club added veteran players to max contracts to win now despite gapping holes at left, third and catcher. Too many risks in too many areas. Wak was put in an untenable position. Too bad he pays the price for upper management's uncoordinated whims. Good Luck Wak! You're a first class guy.

Now, having said that in my subject line, I will also say as much as I disagree with their firing, it's a done deal. While I like Darren Brown, I hope this is only temporary. Since we are obviously making a change, now Jack needs to go after someone like Bobby Valentine. AND....put some players on the field who will show passion, emotion, fire and think when on the base paths. Also, some players who can and will hit.

Blatant cowardice. Howard, Chuck and Jacky Z are incompetent for this one. A simple case of the GM covering his own brown-eye for making moves to get Casey Kotchman, Chone Figgins, Milton Bradley, Eric Byrnes, and a slew of other underwhelming, overpaid players. The same nitwit who traded Brandon Morrow for Brandon League. Morrow struck out 17 batters last night in a one hit game against the Tampa Bay Rays. Brandon League is bordering on being sent down to Triple-A. Jack Z (a man who I once had respect for) should get axed for that alone. Trading a player who was a high first round pick for Brandon League, who never had any potential to be a starter. Wak was managing this talentless team the best he could. A .235 average is the GM's fault for signing under performing, over hyped bags of urine. Wak can play with the line up all he wants (or as much as he can considering he was handed a DH in Griffey that was way over the hill hitting well under .200 and a right fielder who won't budge in the line up because his primary concerns are his annual hitting statistics.) but those boys gotta go to the plate, swing at good pitches and put some wood on the ball. Wak got shafted. He was a runner up for Manger of the Year last season and following a few poor GM decisions, he's out of a job. He'll most certainly catch on with another team and that team will be the better for it. The M's are gonna be bad for a long while, and firing Wak doesn't help. I respect how honorably the man conducted himself through all of this adversity. He could have ran his mouth and talked crap all season about these so called "baseball players", the front office sticking him with Griffey to fulfill their bobble head agenda, Milton Bradley being Milton Bradley, not backing him up on the Figgins ordeal and making him play Lopez to showcase for potential pedantic trades. The cat got a raw deal and there's no arguing that. I ostensibly hate Chone Figgins now that little runt that is stealing 9 million a year from the team, acting out on his Napoleon complex trying to fight Wak and batting .200 for most of the season. What a jerk. This is Seattle sports at its finest. Sorry, had to vent the frustration. Raymond Seattle, WA

I will not attend or watch Mariners again until Figgins is gone - what a worthless player with matching character. Maybe Wak wasn't the greatest manager, but picking Figgins over him demonstrates a real lack of class, discipline, and vision, for this organization.

A few games back the Mariners had a guy at 2nd and 3rd with no outs. I think it was 1-1 in the 5th inning. Wak never put on the bunt. It was "swing-away" for EVERY hitter. The 1st guy fouled out, 2nd guy struck out, and 3rd guy flied out. EVEN my GIRLFRIEND asked me why they didn't bunt. From that moment on, Wak lost me as a fan. Bring back LOU, since we didn't fire Wak soon enough to get Buck Showalter.

All over again. Another situation where the guy in charge, Jack Z, says he's our guy one week, and a short few days later boom, total change. I'm so sick of people being two faced in positions of power. Say FREAKING NOTHING until you are going to make your move, and don't tell me it was a quick decision. You don't fire 3 coaches on an idea you came up with over the weekend. Figgins needs to go too.