I haven’t mentioned baseball too much this year AND maybe that has proved to be the winning formula for my Seattle Mariners.  They are rolling!  I am probably jinxing them with this post, but oh well, you have to brag while the bragging is good. 

The Mariners recently swept the Boston Red Sox in a 3-game series (and the Red Sox are currently tied with the LA Angels for the best record in Major League Baseball.)  They are 9 games above .500; it’s  just too bad the Mariners are in the same division as the Angels.  Right now they are 5 games back in the Western division, but only 2 games back in the Wild Card hunt.  And there’s still half a season of baseball yet to be played.

The most beautiful thing about this season though is how badly the talent-loaded New York Yankees are struggling! (Eleven games back in their division and 8 games back in the Wild Card chase.)  Ha-ha-ha.  On my watch (since I started avidly following baseball in 2001), the Yankees HAVE NOT won a World Series title.  And they have had some serious eat-your-heart out defeats at the hands of the Marlins, Diamondbacks, and (oh so beautiful) Red Sox. 

I think I am partially responsible for this fortuitous Evil Empire drought.  Let’s hope this season they don’t even make the playoffs!  Can’t wait till I sign up for some MLB online…but then again, maybe I shouldn’t watch the games.  I don’t want to jinx it.