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Mariners Manager John McLaren Fired

Christopher Solberg, Editor
6/19/2008

In what has become a major shakedown of the Mariners organization, the team has released Manager John McLaren.

McLaren's failure has somewhat been a result of his General Manager's actions. What John has to work with was limited. (i.e. Jose Vidro or Richie Sexson or Horacio Ramirez or......) But from what it sounds like from the U.S.S. Mariner, they weren't too high on his abilities anyway.

Former Padres and Cubs Manager Jim Riggleman steps in for the rest of the season. He hasn't seen that much success in the majors, but a change was probably needed. Jim definately has his work cut out for him as it sounds like there's not only performance issues with this team, but also some clubhouse problems.

Check out this great pic I found on Rangersfans.com. It says it all.

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