OK, I’m the fuck out of Seattle, and the door did indeed hit me on the ass on the way out, Chris (nice security lines at Sea-Tac by the way: saw a blind and deaf woman get pulled out of line for the extra special search since she set off the metal detector. Maybe her white cane was packed with C-2. Profiling by Pinheads: Helen Keller, terrorist).

Yet the Mariners continue their losing ways despite my jinx-removing absence, and even so are only 2 out of the Wild Card, thanks to those Devil Rays of Tampa Bay beating up on the hapless Yankees today. The post-season is still well within reach, and all the talk of the M’s streaky nature should give you all heart: if you’re a streaky team, you want your 9-game losing streak to come sometime before the last two weeks of the season.