Yeah, but they haven't sucked all of the time. It must be made worse by the fact that just a few years ago they were setting records for wins.

I switched primary allegiance from the M's to the A's when I moved to Oakland (it is always better to root for the team you can actually watch) but it is still shocking to me that a team that simultaneously had Griffey, Rodriquez, Johnson, and Martinez while being coached by Piniella never accomplished much.

Oh, and the Mariners really aren't that bad this year. The current record of teh Athletics is 66-52 while the Mariners are 56-62. If you remove the games between the A's and the M's the respective records are 53-51 and 55-49.

Unfortunately the Mariners have been the victims of a statistical fluke. They are a better than .500 team that has gone 1-13 against the Athletics this year.

No, the Ms suck. Even when they win a gazmillion games they still can't make it to the World Series. There's always some excuse.

A's beat the M's again. Downright freaky, I tells ya.

And so the historic run ends. Best stretch of 18 games in Dodger history...preceeded by one of the worst stetches and followed by an ugly loss.

I'd say it's time to give up on Hendrichson...but the alternative is Sele *shudder*

Because the Ms suck. Still.

Until today, the Mets single-season record holder for road home runs was held by Howard Johnson.


Howard Johnson, excelling on the road.

Howard Johnson's right!




(Blazing Saddles reference)

Okay, so here's the thing about Seattle baseball. We're okay not winning. We're okay being mediocre. But only so long as we feel like we know the players. We don't like to get attached to players when there's a revolving door. And we understand that keeping players that we like might mean compromising on success.

What's not okay is to have a revolving door of losers. If they're no-name people here for a pit stop on their way to a successful team, and if we continue not being that successful team, that's not okay.

So they trade Moyer. I understand why. I know he hasn't been winning and he's really getting up there in years to stay on the field. And for all I know they tried to do right by him by offering a coaching gig and he turned them down. But geeze louise, it's *JAIME MOYER*. You know, the guy we've loved for years. The guy in the commercials. As in Jaime Moyer Foundation.

And to the PHILLIES? Maybe you could give him a swirly on his way out of the clubhouse, too.

Choose. Either spend the cash to give us winning players a la Boston/New York and we'll align ourselves to the team name, no matter the players -- or give us players we can get attached to. Don't give us names we don't recognize who lose just the same.