Dunce of the Month: Emergency Edition | Mariners Scumbag CEO Kevin Mather Resigns After His Comments Surfaced About His Shady Business Practices

This isn’t quite justice, but it’s a good start. For anyone still unaware of what happened let’s catch up. Mather did an interview with the Bellevue Breakfast Rotary Club. It was quickly deleted after the interview was released, but a few great souls found the footage and re-uploaded it to Youtube. In the interview Mather admitted to manipulating prospects’ service time, bragging about underpaying his players and claiming about now wanting to pay for translators for non-English speaking players.

Mather also talks about not letting his employees park in the parking garage he owns, right across the street. Instead of using his parking garage for I don’t know uh employees, he charges upwards of $30, $40 or $50 for people to park in his parking garage. His words. Not only does this guy brag about underpaying his players, he also makes employees park far away and walk to work. Apparently some of them get there around 4 in the morning. An doesn’t love a lengthy walk to work at 4ish in the morning in a crime ridden city with suspecting characters. He says he hires police officers to escort employees to their cars, but I don’t know if I buy that. Security guards maybe, and probably the ones that already work there. But if he does hire actual police officers I guess that’s something. But It’s not like there’s a perfectly good parking garage right across the street or anything. This guy is that much of a cheapskate. It’s just sad. I don’t care if there’s a pandemic going on, if you’re a money hoarder or anything. Nobody should be allowed to be this much of a cheap a*****e. The sad thing is this is probably more of a regular occurrence than it should be. If you told me other executives did this kind of stuff I wouldn’t be surprised. That’s the real problem. There’s no true accountability for these guys at the top. It’s a very real problem, because to them it’s just saving money and getting profits, when in reality those decisions affect players and employees greatly. We just need to weasel out the rest.

It’s pretty obvious that he would step down after this surfaced. There’s no way the organization could hope to do anything with Mather running things. Good for him for resigning though, one less scumbag in charge.

Last thing I’ll leave you with. If this guy admits to stuff like this in a breakfast interview with a rotary club, imagine what he would be like behind close doors.