It’s a fact that every Mariners’ fan has become more than aware of over the years. They know it. They can’t forget it. Some feel it like the pain of a kick to the gut or a thumb slammed in a car door. It fills others with seething rage and bitterness, leading to demands to blow up the whole situation and fire everyone. Others shrug it off as an expected result of a flawed organization that has produced meandering plans to remedy the failure. And there are still a few who hold out hope that this is the year that it ends.