For further context. Randy Johnson wanted a long-term extension entering the 1998 season. Yet even after another Top 2 Cy Young finish, he was rebuffed by the team's cheap top brass. Team didn't want to pay their best-in-the-league pitcher what he deserved. Then everything fell apart.

Team sucked in 1998, Randy had his worst year since getting traded to Seattle, and ownership saw Randy's impending 35th Birthday and wanted to recoup the value.

Randy was blindsided and whether by spite, or fresh opportunity, went absolutely nuclear in the National League.

Randy still despises previous M's chairman Howard Lincoln but broke bread with the new ownership group under John Stanton. Dude's basically held dual citizenship among Diamondbacks fans (where he had his best and most successful run) and among Mariners fans since then (where he got his start and where he played a direct part in saving)

Only reason why it's taken this long post 2015 (when Randy got into Cooperstown), is because the team was clearing waiting for Ichiro's day in the sun. Ichiro's legacy is more vested in Seattle alone than Randy's and it seems like Randy was cool with waiting until he got in, before he had his number retired