Not much fun to go to the game and watch your team get theirasses kicked night after night for the prices you have to shell out.

With revenue sharing, where is the incentive for ownership to put a quality product on the field these days?

Then again, I'm not a baseball expert. The only thing I know is what I know......and that is I hate losers.

I gave up my tickets because ownership is incompetent & doesn't care. They are more worried about increased competition from a new arena then they are about putting a quality product on the field. There are so many other things I can do with my entertainment $'s then watch a crap team with losing record year after year.

Only care about scrimping and saving money. They're payroll has gone down every year. The most likely move this year is a 4 year deal for a catcher who can't hit .240 Why do you think they creates the pen? An area where people can hang out just like they're at a bar and The game is secondary behind getting drunk and mingling with people.

This message by "john_s" is classic of someone in Seattle. Your catcher likely won't hit .240. You aren't paying your catcher to hit .240! You are paying for the defensive attributes of your catcher, and on top of that you are in the AL. I cringe when I read Seattle sports blogs...

Mariner fans get your season tickets to the Best worst show on earth!. Now!. Can't understand it, why attendance is down nothing has changed still a very pukable team.

Ownership sucks! Not many hitters want to play in Seattle! Management want to play money ball and it only works in a few instances. Until they are willing to spend to win we will continue to be marginal at best. Especially with the A's and Rangers willing to pay players big bucks, we will more than likely keep coming up short. Fan's deserve better and are showing ownership what they think by not coming out to the ballpark. A great venue but who wants to watch the team lose most of the time? Just wish they would sell the team and move on!!

But unfortunately more money doesn't always = more wins. Sometimes it means Guys who can hardly hit .240. See Richie Sexsons later years, Beltre's bat while he was here, Jeff Cirillo, Chone Figgins, etc. Hey, just check out how Pujols did this year after signing that ridiculous contract. The first half was terrible, and his skills are diminishing. I am sure the Angels are pretty nervous sitting on that fatcontract. As of now, I am happy he is not with the mariners. But we do need to spend some money and that will mean overpaying at some point. Hopefully it isn't in a situation like the ones cited above.

But it does. More money DOES make you better. The ONLY problem here is that this franchise is ran by the two worst front office dipsticks that has every sat in those seats. THAT BEING DUMB AND DUMBER Lincoln and ARMSTRONG. The two biggest idiots ever to be assembled.

See Bencrit if the LeMays had actual baseball minded personnel at the top we would be getting your moneys worth.

With these two clowns with their heads rammed so far up their arses. THEY ARE BLINDED by the brown goo that surrounds there pee brains. THEY ARE MORONS when in comes to evaluating and hiring talent. COMPLETE UTTERLY BRAIN DEAD MORONS.

With the idiots (currently Jack Z.) calling the shots, money doesn't matter. I can evaluate talent better than that moron. At least I wouldn't have traded our number 2 starter (Fister) for a backup outfielder. Bavasi was even worse. We have had a decade of morons making bad deals.

The Mariners can field crap teams with relatively moderate payrolls and still just barely squeak by, financially. So, they do. Better to lose a lot more games than to lose too much money. Their business model makes no sense at all. If they had to pay for their own place of business, they'd be out of business.

Public subsidies for private businesses result in some weird distortions in the marketplace. The ability to sustain a team that plays very poorly, year after year, is one of those distortions.

GO BACK TO SLEEP

is that you don't need season tickets to get a good seat. You just walk up any night except Yankees and Red Sox games and buy seats just about anywhere you you want.

Fans don't want to watch a loser so we do not show up.

Mariners are not the first nor the last and not the only team going through this!

The team sucketh, the fans leaveth. I have seen no evidence that ownership cares about its fanbase or putting a winning product on the field. The team is bad, attendance keeps dropping, and they raise ticket prices? REALLY? Wish they would just sell the team already. We need some real owners that care about baseball and the product they put on the field. Not some absentee owners that live in another country.

Ok lets hear it for all you "fans". Howz that Baseball on a budget deal workin' for ya?