I feel like I will start this Seattle Mariners Dorktown Lid with the missed trades by the Los Angeles Dodgers for Alex Rodriguez and Randy Johnson and had it not been the spirited hatred of the Yankees by Ken Griffey,Jr. , it would have pushed the Evil Empire into the 30's in Championships.
The story really takes a turn in not necessarily missing a Yankees- Dodgers World Series in the Music Video Era's Gory Outgrowth, but through Eastern Iowa. The Johan Santana trade that gift wrapped a Cedar Rapids Kernels Lineup that should have won the league and I am mad the last pennant year has been the Year I Was 9. Especially down the winding road of US Highway 30 that Clinton had their own Perfect Game just around the time of the Interleague Battery No Hitter and that stuck as their first No Hitter in Clinton since the Mid 1970's.
I do not think "Let's Be Twins" in the Mississippi Valley in Clinton or Burlington when Clinton has complained bitterly they haven't been supported since the Reds broke Camp and the Burlington counterparts always feed on White Sox or Cardinals as their base. I feel the turn in the Mariners Organization was when Clinton became Marlins and that life was anything but a charmed life in Clinton County.
Especially when I would write up a Regional Version of "Road to Perdition" and it not being a Snyder Cut, and that is draining in its own way. It causes consternation that King Felix was not Postseason King Felix and the trickery in all of it is Seattle and Montreal have never formally had a World Series Appearance in their Histories, while Spring Training Outposts in Miami and Tampa Bay have had World Series Appearances before the Mariners, and Randy Johnson went down as a Diamondback because of America's Series.
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