Mariners Roundtable: Which M’s would make the best politicians?

Riley Baker – @RBake6

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If you couldn’t already tell by the obnoxious debates and arguments on social media, it’s an election year! So what better way to celebrate than to imagine our own Mariners as presidential candidates?
I’m going to nominate Kyle Seager. As one of the core players on the team and in the lineup, Seager is going to be one of the team leaders in 2016. Leadership is just the thing we need in a president.

Seager is a quiet, down to Earth guy who won’t have any controversies surrounding him; he will be very professional. However, he can get fired up on rare occasions as we all saw on September 16 of last season in his exchange with Angels pitcher Jered Weaver.

Now, for Vice President I’m going with Charlie Furbush. While President Seager is off doing President Seager things, Furbush will be able to speak to the people with his entertaining, yet insightful banter. And as a player with an average bullpen role, he will relate to the general public giving them a sense of something along the lines of, ‘hey, he’s not any different than me, the average Joe. He must know what’s in my best interests’. But behind the chatter, Furbush will come through and get the job done where it counts.
So hop on board for Seager-Furbush 2016! Hopefully they’ll be making a visit to the White House during the offseason as all World Series Champs do anyways!

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