[allblues]

The Sox are indeed pathetic, but imagine the frustration of Mariner fans, who must endure the only MLB team never to even reach the World Series, much less win a championship. Even their record matching 116 win season of 2001 was spoiled by the Yankees, ruining their closest ever attempt to reach the Series.. I do not expect to live long enough to see that wretched franchise play in the Series.

[13foxtrot]

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The 116 win season bookends nicely with this year’s epic collapse.

[Vigilanteman]

Yep. I was living in Japan then. Everybody was rooting for Seattle because Ichiro Suzuki (our Kobe Blue Wave hometown boy) was showing everyone how utterly stupid the notion was that a Japanese position player couldn’t compete in MLB.

[RckyRaCoCo]

Back in '84 when the Tigers won the WS, they started the season 35-5...I was at wins 34 and 35 in Anaheim. They went up to Seattle and promptly got swept in 4 games...played pretty much .500 baseball the rest of the way...but managed to capture the title.

That seems like a thousand years ago. The players are now old men...like me.