I feel like for as maddening and infuriating the Seattle Mariners National Rise came up, including being mad that the 3 Goalposts cost them a chance to play the Atlanta Braves, having to have their Safeco Field vote announced on National TV before Seattle Media got the final, and making Seattle Media upset, and leaving fans upset that 116 was on raw adrenaline.
Here in Cedar Rapids, the infuriating collapse that later saved the Mariners kept us from pennants, and that is including some of the most powerful teams in Cedar Rapids History. The Angels in the Outfield was carved up on some equally not so happy circumstances and unsecretly, Anaheim has had only one pennant, and that is off the back of my fair city.
In 44 Seasons, the Mariners have played and proven maddening highs and infuriating lows, even at times back to back, like a Magician. I feel the draw in this is SB Nation's Dorktown Series, which Episode 2 came out today in the last hour.
I want Seattle to win and win badly. The Expos have not had a Postseason Series since 1981 and the Nationals have had the nerve to steal their fabric, and the Pirates conversely have not have had a Postseason Series since 1992, in spite of infuriating flashes like Fires in the Sky. For all the characters that have populated Mariners History, even having people who where upset they where traded from the Cubs, or knew Sitcoms better than the Mariners, they have not pulled it together when it counted.
I feel like at home, we need to get out of the Peter Pan Phase. But, there is no other adults who are saying that like we need to get our heads out our rears before it is too late. I feel guilt we are capable of doing great, but, it all disappears or goes missing like quicksand and I don't think all these characters in my city or coming into my city did any favors, either.
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