After reading the main posts on Holiday Cheer and the one on how Jeff is over the Silva signing now (in reverse order), I'm left with this:

What if Bill Bavasi (and the rest of the front office management/ownership) is really so heartless as to cackle away at his most passionate, most literate, most knowledgeable section of the Mariners fanbase.  What if he honestly enjoys reading intellectual and/or statistical blog posts on the values of a decision he has the power to make and then openly chooses against logic time and again.

Bill Bavasi makes plenty of money.  It's not Ichiro-money, but it's a lot.  It's a lot more than  kids in school, it's a lot more than most people in their 20s, and it's likely (I don't research, I just read - which is different) a lot more than 90% of the Mariners fanbase, maybe more.

That gives him a very nice level of F-you status when it comes to decision-making, in regards to common sense.

At this point in his tenure as Mariners GM, I'm of the belief Bavasi is actively trying to sabotage the long-term standing of the team.  And this is not to propose he is actually that intelligent, so much as to say he is reading the blogs, realizing the positives vs. negatives (in so much as any person can do when presented in such an approachable, sensible way)... and then doing the opposite - every time.

The king is dead.  Long live the king.