HeyJaredThe Light Bat
Writing with good-natured snark and hope about sports' most hopeless franchise
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New Interview: Jerry Dipoto On The Culture Of Accountability (opens the original)
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(Ed’s note: Hello friends. Congratulations on suffering the 2026 Seattle Mariners. We did it. Our souls are liberated to seek succor from all the beauty and splendor beyond the tremulous and wretched confines of T-Mobile Park. We spend six months in hell together, but today we are free.Today’s post is an interesting one. As many of you no doubt are aware, Isaac Chotiner is a staff writer at The New Yorker famous for his interviews with subjects generally considered “less than sympathetic” to a l
8/20/26: Good Intentions Are Not Enough (opens the original)
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