Embarrassing: Mariners Unveil Broken Statue For Ichiro Suzuki That Also Looks Like Gender Reveal |
Embarrassing: Mariners Unveil Broken Statue For Ichiro Suzuki That Also Looks Like Gender Reveal
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What on earth are we doing, Seattle?
Friday saw the Seattle Mariners unveil a statue for their Hall of Fame legend Ichiro Suzuki, and though that sounds glorious, it actually came with a couple of mishaps: a broken bat, and it looked like a gender reveal. (RELATED: Magic Of Baseball Strikes Again As Wild Brawl Breaks Out Between Braves’ López, Angels’ Soler)
Rick Rizzs, a broadcaster for the Mariners, made the declaration that “we’re going to count down from 51!,” which was to show respect for Ichiro with him wearing the number during his playing days. It’s since been retired by the Seattle franchise. From there, staffers pulled down the curtain that was over the Ichiro statue, and the bat broke with it.
A cracking noise was heard while the curtain was being pulled down, with blue confetti erupting everywhere like Ichiro was about to have a baby boy or something. It was an absolutely bizarre scene.
Mariners unveil a statue on the 1st base line of T-Mobile park of Ichiro Suzuki in his famous batting stance. The bat broke upon reveal! @KING5Seattle @KING5Sports pic.twitter.com/2UQZiIaVMO — Arielle Orsuto (@ArielleOrsuto) April 10, 2026
Mariners unveil a statue on the 1st base line of T-Mobile park of Ichiro Suzuki in his famous batting stance. The bat broke upon reveal! @KING5Seattle @KING5Sports pic.twitter.com/2UQZiIaVMO
— Arielle Orsuto (@ArielleOrsuto) April 10, 2026
The statue has Suzuki doing his iconic batting stance. Judging by the looks of it, he thought the whole thing was funny.
Not much longer following the revealing of the statue, the M’s joked around on Twitter that they had issued an update to their Ichiro statue bobblehead that they were giving away.
Breaking: We’ve updated tonight’s Ichiro Replica Statue giveaway. pic.twitter.com/EcFfkaAUd6 — Seattle Mariners (@Mariners) April 10, 2026
Breaking: We’ve updated tonight’s Ichiro Replica Statue giveaway. pic.twitter.com/EcFfkaAUd6
— Seattle Mariners (@Mariners) April 10, 2026
Good thing that the Mariners were good sports about this whole thing, because quite frankly, how embarrassing … LMAO.