Those of you who live in the Pacific Northwest, and who are baseball fans (or at least Mariners fans), once again are experiencing a very common ailment around these parts…another disappointing Mariners season. With one game left in this season, the Mariners are in 3rd place in the AL West, with a record of 88 wins and 73 losses. For the first part of the season, Mariners fans held out the somewhat realistic hope that our long playoff drought would finally end with at least a token appearance in the post-season.
Alas, it is not to be. With the painfully quick fall of former ace Felix Hernandez, along with the shocking 80-game suspension of Robinson Cano, our hopes faded away like a promise of a rainless day interrupted by dark clouds rolling in from the west. Thinking about this drought, it is shocking in a depressing, geeky sort of way.
The last time the Mariners played in the post-season was literally as the U.S. was beginning the invasion of Afghanistan. Literally, the Mariners failure to reach the post-season is the same length as America’s longest war!
Many of the kids who are now seniors in high school, were born after the last Mariners’ playoff game. Think about that…
George W. Bush was only ten months into his first term as president when last Seattle appeared in the playoffs…
Netflix was still mailing out videos then…Amazon was just an online bookstore then…
I didn’t have grey hair then…oops…
One good thing to hang our compass rose hat on though…remember the bad old days when Seattle fans were just praying for a winning season? Well, at least we got that goal accomplished.
Until next season…at least we still have the Seahawks…wait, their record is WHAT?