There’s an appropriate symmetry if this was somehow going to be the year that the Mariners finally break through again and reach the playoffs for the first time in 21 years. FOX13
I want to go back to 2004, when the Boston Red Sox broke the Curse of the Bambino – a stretch of 86 years without winning a World Series.The way the Red Sox came back from a three-games-to-none deficit against the Yankees in the American League Championship Series that year was one for the ages. Next to impossible, most fans would say. They were dead to rights in Game 4 when somehow they tied it up against the best closer in the game, Mariano Rivera, and won it in 12 innings.
There’s an appropriate symmetry that if this was somehow going to be the year that they finally break through again and make the playoffs, it’s in a season with this kind of unimaginable and unthinkable run. A season when the overwhelming majority, including myself, had basically written those chances off. Where it felt like only an act of god could somehow get this team back into contention.
I realize that there are still a few months to go, and the momentum can shift as quickly as it began. But it would be fitting if this was the way a playoff-less streak ended. When no one expected it and no one saw it coming.
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