Mariners need to step out of insolvency

It’s October, and that means it’s time for the greatest spectacle in the history of sports: the end of another Seattle Mariners season.

On “The X-Files,” FBI agent Fox Mulder said “I want to believe” regarding the existence of extra-terrestrial life. Mariners fans across the Northwest, including myself, have adopted the saying for the team, wanting to believe that one day the team will manage to have a stretch of success.

The organization is arguably in deeper despair than it was at its last major crisis, around 2008 when it had a failing management, offensive woes and were equivalent to an ol...