About the only thing Mike Hargrove didn't say about his startling resignation Sunday as manager of the Seattle Mariners was, "A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do." So thanks for sparing us that, anyway. And thanks, too, for his share of the spade work in digging out from the cave-in of 2004 and 2005 and the building to this point – the M's not just winners of eight straight games, but 26 of the last 38 and players in both a pennant race and the wild-card mix. Maybe he wasn't anybody's favorite Mariners manager, but as he said himself, "Somebody has to drive the bus." And has to get some credit for the smooth stretches of road as well as blame for the blind turns into cul-de-sacs -- John Blanchette/Spokesman-Review.

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Question: What do you think of Hargrove's decision to quit while the Mariners were winning?

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