Mariners = Bold

Today, Lee Pelekoudas told the PI his secret recipe for salvaging the franchise. Hold on to your hat, because this is some incisive baseball talk.

"Our goal here is obviously to get better. A good way to put it is to change the way we play the game." Actually, Lee, that's a pretty shitty way to put it. What the hell are you talking about?

"We have to execute the game much better than we have." Sound.

Now we get into some specifics: "We may get younger, and you generally don't get younger through free agency." Cool. So we're rebuilding. We'll trade some older guys, give what younger guys we have a chance to play, and focus on the draft. Maybe invest in scouting operations in Latin America. Except...

"Now to say that we're going to go all young and start completely tearing things up would be inaccurate. We have young players here. And if we surround them with the right players, I don't think we have to start all over again."

So there you have it. Change the way they play. Execute better. Surround the the spectacular core of Lopez and Betancourt with role players like Cairo. Who needs to start over with a plan that rigorous?