In the 21st century? Just as many as Seattle — zero.

They do have a rich history, though. They’ve lost the World Series an MLB-leading 13 times.

Or, put another way: You can come up with a list of “The Ten Best World Series EVER!!!” — and in every single one, the Yankees lose.

(…and I’m not sure that’d be factually incorrect.)

You’re not much of a fan if you don’t think the team still has a chance almost until the end; you’re not much of a GM if act as if that was true. One operates in spite of the evidence, the other operates in light of it.

And a side note, I’ve always wanted the Mariners to field one of those teams like the old Marlins and ’07 Rays that were full of a bunch of unknown names (to the casual fan) that then goes on to shock the baseball world. Those teams prove that names aren’t what matters, it’s talent and baseball business acumen. We seem to be quickly building up on both.

And please will one of the admins tell everyone to punctuate quotes like this: .” and not this: “. Don’t know if that bothers anyone else…

And I know that most of you are sick and tired of watching Garrett Olson take the mound

I’ve started referring to him as “the hemorrhage” as he seem to hemorrhage runs every time he takes the mound.

Here’s hoping that French isn’t quite as bad.

He’s an innings eater, but nobody — not even Detroit — mistakes him for an ace

Lynn Herring from Detroit said much the same things as Joser above; that Wash is the classic rental; Detroit got him just so they didn’t have to rely heavily on French & Porcello in the last months, and that they’ll have no interest in re-signing him, as next year they will have better, cheaper options for the rotation.

When asked what his philosophy was he said “obtaining talent.”

I started to laugh at the amusing obviousness of that and then stopped when I realized how much trouble Bavasi had with it.

Does it seem like this trade deadline was more active than past years? I’m not just talking about he M’s, which was obviously spectacularly active vs some other summers, but just all around the league — you have a Cy Young winner switching teams, the Pirates selling off everybody (and the Indians coming close), Boston flipping backup first base men and acquiring a catcher, a lot of interesting moves by teams as diverse as the Dodgers and the Twins.

Bedard has spent half his time on the DL. Batista gave us one decent season then fell apart and is in the bullpen reminded us of guys named Ayala and Slocumb. Silva gave us one good month and then, well, best not to speak of what came next. Washburn is having a good year, but to get that good year we first had to go through three years of mediocre-at-best performance paid for at ace pitcher rates.

Starting Pitchers have high attrition rates. Prospects, vetrans, journeymen, they all have high attrition rates. Stacking up a bunch of “maybe” guys seems like a good strategy. Some will flame out, some will come through, but by getting them cheap, we can afford to get enough of them that the odds are we’ll get some quality arms in the rotation.