Seattle Sports Columnist Who Called For Jerry Dipoto to Be Fired Joins "Refuse to Lose" Podcast

Earlier this week, Seattle sportswriter and longtime media personality Danny O'Neil called for Mariners President of Baseball Operations Jerry Dipoto to be fired. On Friday, he joined our "Refuse to Lose" podcast to discuss his thoughts.

Seattle Mariners President of Baseball Operations Jerry Dipoto talks with the media prior to the game against the Boston Red Sox at T-Mobile Park on Aug 1, 2023. / Steven Bisig-USA TODAY Sports

Earlier this week, longtime Seattle sports media personality Danny O'Neil wrote a critical column in the Tacoma News-Tribune. In the column, he called for Seattle Mariners President of Baseball Operations Jerry Dipoto to be fired, citing multiple instances of the Dipoto-led Mariners doing the wrong thing. This includes the horrible way in which manager Scott Servais found out he was being fired after nine years of service to the organization.

On Friday, O'Neil joined the "Refuse to Lose" podcast with our own Brady Farkas to discuss his column, his opinion of Dipoto, and his opinion of the Mariners.

You can listen to that interview, and the whole podcast, here:

The podcast comes out each Tuesday and Friday and can be streamed on Apple Podcasts and on Spotify. In addition to the O'Neil interview, we talked about the Ryan Divish comments on the "Marine Layer" podcast that have the M's Twittersphere up in arms.

The Mariners enter play on Friday at 68-66 overall and 4.0 games back in the American League West race. They are also just 4.5 games back of the Minnesota Twins in the battle for the final wild card spot.

The M's will be back in action on Friday when they begin a 10-game road trip at the Los Angeles Angels. The Angels are in last place in the American League West, but they have beaten the M's in six of their last seven games.

Seattle will send George Kirby to the mound against right-hander Carson Fullmer.

First pitch is 6:38 p.m. PT.

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