Seattle Mariners Continue Proud Tradition of Being Terrible
The Seattle Mariners are a bizarrely run sports franchise. Playing in the easiest division in baseball to reach the postseason, the team has now failed to do so for seven consecutive seasons. With only four teams in the AL West, and routinely crappy ones at that, the Mariners open every season with a 25% chance of claiming a playoff spot. However, with Wednesday’s trade with the Pirates, the Mariners made a bold statement about their goal to avoid postseason baseball until the Sun expands into a Red Giant and envelops the Earth, thereby ending any chance of accidentally slipping into contention, as sometimes happens in that stupid division out there on the left side of the country.
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