Perhaps you read Saturday that Mariners chairman and CEO Howard Lincoln told reporters his controversial decision to continue with general manager Bill Bavasi and manager Mike Hargrove, despite the club's three consecutive last-place finishes, meant that they were on his "hot seat."
That might have been the earliest hot-seat designation in MLB history. Normally such declarations are the province of sportswriters, who usually hold off until the first three-game losing streak of the new season.
But the unusual comment raised a question:
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Now it's Lincoln on the hot seat
Now it's Lincoln on the hot seat
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