16 things bothering Jerry Dipoto besides Blue Jays fans invading Safeco Field

What else is needling you, Jerry?

On Friday, before the second game of a four-game series between the Blue Jays and his Mariners team, Jerry Dipoto was bothered. By what? By the swarms of Blue Jays fans who travel south from Canada to invade Safeco Field every year when their team plays Seattle, of course.

It’s a tradition at this point for Jays fans to come to town and both fanbases to gently mock the other with creative signs featuring jokes about each other’s countries and traditions. This series is no different with lots of fun signs and Blue Jays fans once again appearing to outnumber the hometown crowd at Safeco.

So that’s what’s bothering Mariners GM Dipoto, but he also said that’s one “the many things” bothering him. What else could be needling at him right now? I took a shot at what else could be on his mental list of nuisances.

• He hasn’t made a trade in 74 hours and counting
• The Athletics being half a game up on the Mariners in the division
• The weather in Seattle being 70 degrees but partly cloudy, ruining his pre-game pool plans
• Felix Hernandez’s struggles
• His inability to match his subjects and his verbs

• The Athletics being half a game up on the Mariners in the division
• The Athletics being half a game up on the Mariners in the division
• The Athletics being half a game up on the Mariners in the division
• His weekly 100-pound order of salmon filets wasn’t ready at Pike Place Fish Market when he went to meet his fish guy with a bag of cash at 5am
• Kyle Seager didn’t name his newborn daughter “Mariner” as suggested
• Dee Gordon keeps trying to get him to eat crickets before every game even though he already said he didn’t like them
• He just remembered Christopher Nolan didn’t win Best Director for Dunkirk
• Cameron Maybin reapeatedly asking him to build a Dinger Machine at Safeco just like the Marlins had in their outfield
• The Mariners won’t let him make Seattle trading cards so he can trade them to get his fix when baseball trades aren’t happening frequently
• The Ringer didn’t include The Shield on their 100 Best TV Episodes of the Century list but they found room for a second-season episode of Empire
• The Astros being five and a half games up on the Mariners in the division