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Article: ML Baseball -- Lou Piniella Asks Out of M's Contract -- Manager wants to be closer to Tampa home
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- Yakima Herald-Republic
- Article date:
- October 13, 2002
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THE SEATTLE TIMES
SEATTLE - Lou Piniella, the man who more than anyone else taught
the Seattle Mariners how to win in his 10 years here, may have
managed his last game for the club.
In a meeting Friday in Tampa, Fla., with three Seattle team
officials, led by CEO Howard Lincoln, Piniella formally asked to be
allowed to resign.
"I asked them if I could be allowed to get closer to home," he
said Saturday from his home in Tampa. "We had an amicable meeting, as
amicable as amicable can be. We talked for over an hour. Now they're
going to make a decision."
He later told the St. Petersburg Times that he had asked, "for
permission to talk to other teams."
Asked if there were a timeline, Piniella ...