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The Mariners' Suits Have Made Their Bed, now they must proceed while lying in it. Earth to Howard: This whole thiing is bass ackwards. You may not hire a team president until January or February, but you are contemplating making a centerpiece move with the franchise. Thus the man you will hire, who has the unique combination of baseball contacts and savvy and uber-business skills, will have no voice as to the wisdom of such a move. It's immaterial what I think. This is a cart before the horse move from that persepective alone.
Even more so, you claimed to be SO prudent in not overspending in the past, but your team has become so devoid of superior talent and so bad that you contemplate such a move as this in order to overcome the problems YOU have created. There was no need for the team to ever sink so low for so long. But you were being WISE. You were being PRUDENT. You were being CAREFUL. Attendance was down because the team stank? Slash payroll. Bring in a GM who you can force to work against impossible payroll restrictions. Implement a full-orbed extreme youth movement, save a boatload of money while doing it.
Rather than "Nothing Ventured Nothing Gained," you followed a policy of "Nothing Ventured, Nothing Risked."
Now you must retrieve the situation, and you want to make a big splash. My goodness. You should have just practiced your diving all these years.