The Mariners Already 1-0 As Flowering New Baseball Season Yields First Fruit

We'll get back to this in a minute.
The Mariners opened their season home at Safeco Field for the first time in seven years on Monday, and they did so with genuine hope of making a playoff run for probably only the third time in the past dozen seasons. And both of the previous hopeful years (remembered as the Erik Bedard year and the Cliff Lee year to people like myself who measure time in trades for baseball pitchers) ended with 101 losses. Potentially delicious baseball seasons have a habit of