Mariners Start Second Half in Like an Hour

The Mariners mood swing of a season continues tonight in Toronto. The blue and teal are three games under .500 and three games back of the first place A's and Rangers.

After their last two efforts, being three games out at the All-Star break is wonderful. Mariners fans have serious cause to believe that this team can be in the the race until the final days of Seafair.

Following a June where they made the National League West look like the American League West, the Mariners soared over .500 and were within a game of first place. Since July however, the team has gone 2-6 and
are back in last place.

This team should spend the next few months contending for a .500 season. In our wildest, wettest dreams, everything will finally click, the team will slap Oakland around in August, win the west, and Dave Niehaus will spend the off season in our living room drinking tea with us.

However, we have a funny, no reality based, feeling that the second half will go like this: the team's inconsistencies will keep it from sustained excellence; the A's will put together one of their insane 26 victories in 20 games streaks; Hargrove will do just enough to keep his job; and white people up and down the Sound will demand that Willie Bloomquist get his own statue.

The second half starts this evening at 4pm-- Meche. Janssesn. .500, here we come.