Late Saturday night video surfaced of Mariners CEO Kevin Mather delivering remarks to a Seattle-area Rotary Club on February 5. I wish I could say the content was shocking, but it isn’t. As much as we would all love to believe that no MLB team owners or executives believe the things Mather casually admitted to in the 46-minute discussion, I think we all know more of them harbor some of these thoughts than we’d like to admit — they just also have the presence of mind to not say the quiet parts out loud.
Predictably, the original video has pulled, but our friends at the SB Nation Mariners blog Lookout Landing found another upload of it and handily transcribed the entire conversation in case you are the reading type.