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  Seattle Mariner fans have nothing to worry about this week except for how M's announcer Angie Mentink can remove the beer from her blonde locks courtesy of an exuberant Luis Castillo in a Mariner post-game celebration. The Mariners clinched their first AL Western Division title and now await the winner of a best-of-three series between the Cleveland Guardians and the Detroit Tigers, who have already played six times in the last two weeks. That second-round series begins, Oct. 4 at Safeco Field. Seattle swept the Colorado Rockies, a team that allowed 479? more runs than they scored this season before playing out the string against the LA Dodgers last week- the M’s first division title since 2001. Adding to Pacific Northwest baseball fans enjoyment – the Houston Astros- the team Mariner fans dislike the most, somehow played their way out of the playoffs, despite wrapping up the season with the Los Angeles Angels and the Athletics. The Astros were eliminated from the post-seas...

  If the Seattle Mariners win the World Series in 2025, some of the credit could go to a longtime Mariner follower, Steven Blackburn of Lake Stevens.. KOMO-TV identified Blackburn as the fan who recently paid an Etsy witch to put a spell on the Seattle Mariners. On Sept. 5, the Mariners had dropped four consecutive games and their playoff hopes – and certainly any chance of winning the American League West Division- were taking a slide. Blackburn, whose handle is Absolute Unit on Twitter, posted that day, `I HAVE PAID AN ETSY WITCH TO UNFUCK THE MARIERS. HELP ME MANIFEST.’ The next day, Absolute Unit posted `I am doing this for the greater good (my own mental health).” Blackburn also received a response that day from Spell By Luna, an actual Etsy Witch (apparently Agnes Moorehead from the old Bewitched TV show was unavailable) saying the spell had been cast and she was manifesting (having good thoughts). The spell was listed at $19.99 on the Etsy website (even witches use the...

  I met someone about a month ago who said that he’d given up on the Seattle Mariners. I explained to him (practically a guarantee) that the M’s would make the post-season playoffs in 2025. He said he would start watching them again but would hold me personally responsible if they didn’t make the playoffs. At the time, I thought he was misled by the media and some fans who seemed to have a fixation with the Mariners catching the Houston Astros. We’d sometimes hear how Seattle dropped a game in the standings to the `trash can bangers,’ with no mention that Seattle still held a wild-card position. As Red Sox announcer Lou Merloni noted on one of their telecasts, he didn’t pay a lot of attention to who was ahead of Boston in the standings, it’s the teams below you, you want to lose; the important thing is making the playoffs. (Speaking of the Red Sox; Mariner fans were giddy when the Bostonians swept Houston in a three-game series about a month ago. Currently, the M’s trail the Re...