Those who follow the Mariners are no strangers to nostalgia. The team’s marketing department has forever shoved commemorative promotions down fans’ throats, and most fans are themselves likely guilty of re-watching The Double a few too many times.
The dirty secret of Mariners fandom is that, while we all pretend to love reminiscing about the good old days, it’s even more fun to reminisce over the bad old days. Remember Blake Beavan? How about, uh, Ryan Langerhans? I’m sure Don Wakamatsu put that guy in the two-spot a few times!
What I mean to say is that we’re all a lot more comfortable with failure.