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Also owner of the Seattle Mariners, apparently. Never saw the Mariners play in person. Not once.


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Also owner of the Seattle Mariners, apparently. Never saw the Mariners play in person. Not once.

I believe Nintendo of America itself owns the Mariners, not the president.

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Big Chicagoan wrote:
Also owner of the Seattle Mariners, apparently. Never saw the Mariners play in person. Not once.

I believe Nintendo of America itself owns the Mariners, not the president.


Nintendo doesn't own Obama, you racist jerk.

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Also owner of the Seattle Mariners, apparently. Never saw the Mariners play in person. Not once.

I believe Nintendo of America itself owns the Mariners, not the president.


Nintendo doesn't own Obama, you racist jerk.

He's the WiiU of presidents.


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In the early 1990s, the Seattle Mariners were available for sale and Washington state's senator Slade Gorton asked Nintendo of America to find a Japanese investor who would keep the club in Seattle. Yamauchi offered to buy it, even though he had never been to a baseball game. Although the owner accepted the offer, the baseball commissioner and ownership committee were strongly opposed to the idea of a non-North American owner and did not approve the deal. However, following the strong support and sentiments of the people of Seattle and press, and having the decision be deemed as racist, the commissioner formally approved the deal, under the condition that Yamauchi had less than 50% of the vote. This was a major development in American baseball, because this opened the gates for Japanese baseball players to American league teams, which had been previously denied. In 2000, the club made its first profit of $2.6 million since its acquisition by Yamauchi.[6][15] Despite his ownership of the club, Yamauchi never attended a Mariners game.


This is rather interesting. Also interesting is that he bought the team from Jeff Smulyan, creator of WFAN and by extension modern sports talk radio. You'd think the Mariners would have become a bigger force than they were with Nintendo behind them. You almost feel like their window is closed forever.

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In the early 1990s, the Seattle Mariners were available for sale and Washington state's senator Slade Gorton asked Nintendo of America to find a Japanese investor who would keep the club in Seattle. Yamauchi offered to buy it, even though he had never been to a baseball game. Although the owner accepted the offer, the baseball commissioner and ownership committee were strongly opposed to the idea of a non-North American owner and did not approve the deal. However, following the strong support and sentiments of the people of Seattle and press, and having the decision be deemed as racist, the commissioner formally approved the deal, under the condition that Yamauchi had less than 50% of the vote. This was a major development in American baseball, because this opened the gates for Japanese baseball players to American league teams, which had been previously denied. In 2000, the club made its first profit of $2.6 million since its acquisition by Yamauchi.[6][15] Despite his ownership of the club, Yamauchi never attended a Mariners game.


This is rather interesting. Also interesting is that he bought the team from Jeff Smulyan, creator of WFAN and by extension modern sports talk radio. You'd think the Mariners would have become a bigger force than they were with Nintendo behind them. You almost feel like their window is closed forever.


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