It’s a common refrain, and a well-deserved one at that. When you have the longest current playoffs drought across all North American professional teams, when your team has struggled to put together competent seasons in consecutive years, it’s unfortunately apt. For a decade and a half, the Seattle Mariners have been a never-ending Shakespearean tragedy, with betrayals and failures galore.
This year, however? This year has felt different. Things have broken right this year. So going into today’s game against the Angels, hoping to come away with a sweep and a 7.5 game lead over our Southern California rivals, I felt perhaps unreasonably confident.