The Seattle Mariners' statue reveal for Ichiro Suzuki had, well, one of the more inauspicious mishaps imaginable.

April 10, 2026 - 18:46 UTC

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@deathcarpets.sisc.one is this how it feels every day for you
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you simply can’t help but laugh
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Wtf did they make it out of?
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@craigcalcaterra.bsky.social - expecting a full insider analysis on this on Monday.
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I mean, even the best hitters get busted inside from time to time
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How does that even happen? Nice plinth, though 👍
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This is soooo 2026
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Ichiro was the best - such a nice guy - had the best footwork I ever saw. Congrats to him and the mariners fans!
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Jynx Maze -coded
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Peak Maribers
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It took me three views to see it
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It was a fantastic representation of their current offense
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So powerful he broke his statues bat.
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did mariano rivera sculpt this
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Ichiro actually joked about Mariano causing this 😂
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Was hoping someone would say this 😂
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holy shit they recreated our guy from sick’s stadium @jonbois.bsky.social what an accidental tribute
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Y’all act like you’ve never seen a broken bat blooper before. <sneaks off….
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Fixed it 🤟
bsky.app/profile/theathletic.com/post/3mj6epj6e2s2r
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I told him the marzipan bat was too skinny and it wouldn’t make it to the judges
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if you can't laugh at this, they might not be your team lol
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Yep, that's us.
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😣
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OH NO
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I cannot breathe
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watching baseball @jonbois.bsky.social
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This isn’t even the first time a Seattle Mariners legend statue has had the bat removed after its unveiling, though it is the first mid-reveal debatting
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Even with the broken bat, at least it's an homage to a better player than the Andy Sheets statue. kuow-prod.imgix.net/store/c5fe940becf0c9fcfa6a3adc89eaa446.jpg
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OH NO!
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@cespedesbbq.bsky.social probably too late for this week’s Uggla, but I do hope you enjoy this
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Giving JD Vance a sneak peak was a very predictable mistake.
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to be fair to the statue makers, casting that thin section by the bat is probably really, really hard since the material that falls all the way to the bottom of the bat would then be really cold and displace a lot of air that has to get out through the thin neck of the bat
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“It can happen to anyone, babe.”
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Still shows up to spring ball.
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A statue that fragile would last about 30 seconds in a British street.
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A traffic cone on the right hand would fix it.
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probably made of cheap plastic like the rest of the USA... capitalism extortion as usual
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I laughed out loud. BACK TO THE WELDER, YOU!
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It’s the most predictable thing to go wrong with the statue, and it couldn’t handle…. A sheet of cloth..
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The response was 10/10 though: bsky.app/profile/marinersbot.bsky.social/post/3mj63t5vumc25
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To Rick Rizzs' eternal credit, he salvages it with a quick "looks like it was a fastball up and in... but he still beat it out!" bsky.app/profile/cp3cpa.bsky.social/post/3mj5ysd6mvk24
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incredible call
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These statues are a menace
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Bronze Ichiro just goes to the dugout and gets another bronze bat out of the rack
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this is extremely Mariners
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😭😭😭
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Well that's just poor engineering...
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I saw the Mariner’s post updating the bobble head, and was hoping for context to arrive. 😋
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Oh no lmao
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Example 1000 why you don't make statues to living people. It's embarrassing. And you don't know what that man will do and what we'll learn.
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That's just really poor construction and they're lucky it happened now rather than falling on some small child's head. Just averted a major lawsuit.

Embarrassing & disrespectful for such a great player as well.

Should never have happened, so easy to see that the bat should have been reinforced.
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cc: @dicknixon.bsky.social
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omfg @mollyknight.bsky.social
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Ichiro’s comments to the Japanese media right after were pretty hysterical.😅
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Jr absolutely losing it amidst the confetti and triumphant music is perfection
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Seeing them joke together was so cute
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I can *easily* see him with a file working away at this in the middle of the night last night. Just an extension of this www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOPfTiPUWx0
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I'm guessing Jay Buhner's fat head had something to do with this
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Easy fix. Just put a statue of Mariano Rivera 60’ away.
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Much promise, turns out to be broken. It's a metaphor for the Mariners this season.
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That's so depressing.
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Dwyane Wade's son should be invited to every unveiling
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Iconic.
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seems like a good omen to me
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Leave it like that you cowards
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mariners should pay their players as well as they pay for statues.
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mariners moment
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I blame that one guy in Baseball Writers' Association of America who didn't vote for Ichiro for the HOF.
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Fuck that guy btw
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Blue Chew needs to jump on this advertising opportunity
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