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Updated: 23 Feb 2021, 2:42
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SEATTLE Mariners President and CEO Kevin Mather resigned on Monday after videos showed him ridiculing his foreign players and staffers’ English skills.
Mather, who made the remarks earlier in February in a call with a Rotary Club, resigned and left his post immediately, the Mariners announced in a statement.
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Seattle Mariners President and CEO Kevin Mather was with the team since 1996Credit: Getty Images - Getty
The resignation came after footage emerged over the weekend of Mather talking about Hisashi Iwakuma, a former Mariners pitcher who recently became part of the coaching staff.
“Wonderful human being; his English was terrible,” Mather said of Iwakuma, who is from Japan.
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Here’s a rule of thumb when it comes to this show: if I’m talking about the Seattle Mariners, it’s going to go badly for the Mariners. Generally, really badly.
And if I’m talking about Mariners president and CEO Kevin Mather, he and they probably did something really stupid and are about to get wrecked for it.
And if I’m talking about Mariners president and CEO Kevin Mather talking to the Bellevue Breakfast Rotary Club, it’s horrible for everyone. And that’s pretty much the result of Mather running his yap to the Rotarians earlier this month.