Every team has its highs and lows, frustration, heartbreak, greatness and confusion, but no other team is like this one. The Seattle Mariners are eminently lovable, profoundly human and stunningly, outrageously weird.
WritersJon Bois, Alex Rubenstein
This is not an endorsement of arson
Mar 26, 2020
"Arson will get you a baseball team" is not the lesson here. In fact, there is no lesson at all. There is only the Seattle Mariners, who in their early years did nothing but play out some of the weirdest stories in the history of baseball.
Ken Griffey, Jr. and his quest to save the Mariners
Apr 2, 2020
After years of abject irrelevance, the Seattle Mariners suddenly became the team of Ken Griffey Jr., one of the most beloved athletes in American history.
The Battle for Seattle
Apr 9, 2020
After nearly 20 years of losing baseball, the Seattle Mariners were likely to be sold and moved out of town. But on the field, they and the Yankees were playing out one of the most dramatic playoff series baseball has ever seen.
The Seattle Mariners build a death star
Apr 21, 2020
The late-'90s Seattle Mariners were like nothing we've seen before or since. This was a team that had featured four Hall of Fame-caliber players in their primes. What could go wrong?
The Age of Ichiro
Apr 30, 2020
Ichiro Suzuki was the most unconventional and electrifying baseball player of the 21st century. During the 2000s, he and the Mariners pieced together a beautiful, infuriating story.
The Seattle Mariners enter the great beyond
May 14, 2020
Felix Hernandez, the hero of the modern-day Mariners, did all he could to drag them into the playoffs. He never made it happen, because no one could. But to call them cursed, would be to miss the point of the Seattle Mariners entirely.
