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Historically that (bass) number is way, way down. The same with threadfin - their numbers are up, but it's still read more

Historically that (bass) number is way, way down. The same with threadfin - their numbers are up, but it's still way, way down from historic levels.

This gives us a range of things we could do. Some of that is pretty big dollar amounts. The next read more

This gives us a range of things we could do. Some of that is pretty big dollar amounts. The next step will be ... how do we choose among those options and how do we pay for it?

Why wasn't someone on top of this years ago? I don't have an answer to that. The step decline ... read more

Why wasn't someone on top of this years ago? I don't have an answer to that. The step decline ... got people's attention. That made it possible to start looking at this in great detail.

We're aware of it. There's no question after two seasons of 90-plus losses, fans don't necessarily feel that.

We're aware of it. There's no question after two seasons of 90-plus losses, fans don't necessarily feel that.

Danny's the last of that generation of players that saved baseball in Seattle. Of the 34 postseason games this team read more

Danny's the last of that generation of players that saved baseball in Seattle. Of the 34 postseason games this team has played, Dan Wilson started 30 of them.

We have come to the end of a generation. Dan Wilson is the last connection to a team that saved read more

We have come to the end of a generation. Dan Wilson is the last connection to a team that saved baseball in Seattle. He will always be a member of Mariners family and we hope to come up with a place for him in the organization.

This is the end of a generation that remade and saved baseball in Seattle. He's the last connection to that read more

This is the end of a generation that remade and saved baseball in Seattle. He's the last connection to that miracle 1995 team.

I agree with that. I think you will see us recasting some of our thinking to look at longer term read more

I agree with that. I think you will see us recasting some of our thinking to look at longer term things.

The one thing we learned in 2005 is there is no simple answer or smoking gun for this. This is read more

The one thing we learned in 2005 is there is no simple answer or smoking gun for this. This is a tough problem.

This is a tough problem, and there is no simple answer or smoking gun. More likely, there are multiple causes, read more

This is a tough problem, and there is no simple answer or smoking gun. More likely, there are multiple causes, and they may vary from species to species.