Yeah, the Mariners would have been great...if the entire season had been played in April. Criminy, now they can't buy a hit, and it seems like 3 out of every 4 games, one pitcher has to give up a half dozen runs in an inning.
Sadly, to borrow from Denny Greene, they are who we thought they were. The Mariners will live under the crushing incompetence of Bill Bavasi for at least another 4-5 years. Carlos Silva, 4 years, $48 million and in the last 11 months, he's won one game (and lost something like 20). The Bedard trade. Adam Jones is hitting about .350 for Baltimore.
I can't go on. Too depressing. If you had put free agent names and salary figures on a dart board and let a drunken monkey throw darts at it, Seattle would have done better than they did under Bavasi.
