Lou Piniella's Fall out with the Mariners

during a series in Houston in 2002 Lou was asked by a Houston reporter about the Randy Johnson trade where the Mariners and the Astros made that deal in 1998 Lou stated they were trying to win the World Series and they thought Randy would be a major factor I think if you have a team that's one piece short you owe it to your fans to give it a go and to your players how many teams get in position that way in the later parts of the Season where the relationship between the two seemed to have taken an even larger hit was in the game in 2002 l argued with umpire CB bucknor due to an out he called which prevented the Mariners from winning the game at the time although the Mariners won Howard Lincoln made these following statements stated in Lou panella's book you can't have padas out there those statements would seem to break the camels back in their relationship hence why Lou would make those statements to Peter gam at the end of the season at that point the relationship was broken since Lou's request for the team's improvements were constantly denied