Too bad for T-Mobile, the communications company headquartered near Seattle. They signed a 25-year contract last year for the naming rights to the field where the Mariners play...to the tune of 600 million dollars.
A more sorry bunch of absolute losers there have never been....short of the Democrat party.
They ought to just announce tomorrow that they're going out of business and sell all the team's assets. Why? The Seattle Mariners will never, I repeat, NEVER advance to the World Series. EVER. Mark my words. Written in stone.
Within five years, I suspect the Mariners will pack up and move to Vegas.
As a life long Red Sox fan, all I have to say is Boo-frickin-hoo.
I am sure cubbie fans will agree with our sentiment.
I was just telling co-workers here that this Series will be the first one featuring a Washington DC based team since 1933, when the original Washington Senators franchise (transferred to Minnesota in 1961 and did not play in a Series again until 1965 against Los Angeles) lost to the New York Giants. And that the 1961 to 1971 Senators franchise (before moving to Arlington, Texas in 1972) did not qualify for the playoffs, with it’s best finishing in 1969 in fourth place in the AL East with 86 wins.
This will be the first World Series appearance for the Montreal Expos/Washington Nationals franchise as the Expos lost to Los Angeles in the 1981 NLCS and that this season was the franchise’s second appearance in an NLCS.
If the Nationals win the World Series, it will be the first time a DC based team wins one since 1924, when the original Senators beat the New York Giants in seven games. The Senators won only two more AL pennants after 1924 (1925 and 1933). Did not win another Series until 1987 as the Minnesota Twins, with another in 1991 during the Kirby Puckett, Jack Morris, etc era.
Seattle did just fine this year except for pitching, hitting, base-running, and defense. Two great things about being an Mariners fan: it will always be true that two or three years from the present they’ll have a playoff team, and come this year’s playoffs we get to root for whomever we want. I did think it a great idea to expand the AL West to five teams by bringing in the Astros so Seattle would have somebody to beat. That worked out pretty well, didn’t it?
The team was founded in what 1977?... so it hasn’t made the show in 42
years?
Big Whoop...
Chicago Cubs went 108 years between appearances in the World Series...
42 years isn’t even close to the record of not making it to the world series.
I’d say the Mariners have a far better shot of making the World Series before the Pittsburgh Pirates do....
Winning a World Series may be a more significant benchmark.
Seriesly.
Not much into BBall but have the Mari-losers ever won a Pennant? I don’t think they have. There are more Seahawks stuff around - T’s, car decals, etc than Mariners, hardly see any and if so, real old and worn out.
Hey, look at the Cubs. Anyone can have a bad century!
I was at that game. It was great. Of course, this was when they had a team.
I have been a Mariner's fan for years, went thru the ups and (mostly) downs. Went thru the rotating players every year; then they switchhed it up and had rotating managers for a while.
This past season they basically replaced everyone but 2 players (Seager and the 1st baseman, whose name I can't remember). I don't know anyone on that team anymore. And, they are terrible, pretty much like every other Mariner team since Lou Pinella left for Tampa Bay (his elderly mother was ill and lived in Florida).
So, T-Mobile took over and now there are pink highlights all over the stadium. And the prices they charge for their concessions is outrageous.
The Great Choke of 2001 highlighted a glaring flaw that has plagued the Mariners since their inception. No matter how much talent they may have on their roster, their culture will always defeat them.
In short, throughout their pathetic history the Mariners leadership has known only how to lose and has learned nothing of how to win.
And nobody knows better how to take a dive after the All-Star break than the Seattle Mariners.
The Mariners will never get to the World Series, much less win one.
They should change the team's name to the Wallflowers, because no matter how close they may get to the ball, they will never dance with the prince.
I remember flying into Chicago once (before 2016) and the pilot announced, “Welcome to Chicago, home of the Cubs, winners of the 1908 World Series ...”
Seattle is a city of losers
Even the Seattle Pilots made it to the WS
in 1982, but they had to become the
Milwaukee Brewers in 1970 1st.