Despite the Seattle Mariners sitting at home with an off-day today, they've had to watch themselves get eliminated from the MLB postseason.
The Mariners needed a loss from either the Detroit Tigers or the Kansas City Royal to stay alive in the race, but both teams rallied back for late victories, and the Mariners are officially eliminated from 2024 playoff contention. Another year, another missed playoff.
The 2024 Seattle Mariners season is over.
— Seattle Mariners ON Tap (@MarinersONTap) September 26, 2024
Another year of the same old Mariners. pic.twitter.com/ACadckS1sO
Since 2001, we all know what has happened, 23 years, and 1 playoff appearance. When is this going to change? Sure, the Mariners made the playoffs in 2022, but we've tried to run it back with the same old philosophies in 2023 and 2024, and fell short. The only difference this year is that Mariners did not go on some 13-14 game winning streaks like they did they previous two years.
At the end of the day, the Mariners held a 10-game lead in the American League West on June 19, and they blew it. From June 19th to July 24th, the Seattle Mariners went 8-21. They blew the AL West lead, they blew their chances of being a great team, and we all knew that it might end badly, and it did.
Things are hopefully going to change one day, but they likely won't anytime soon... Not with this ownership group, and honestly, this fan base showing up to support them.
Unless something crazy happens (it won't).
— Sami ON Tap (@SamiOnTap) September 25, 2024
Another Seattle Mariners season is in the books.
Another year of bad ownership.
Another year of being profitable, but cheap.
Another year of the Astros being MUCH better.
Another year of the wrong players coming to Seattle.…
Seattle Mariners give away Funko Pops and do firework nights, and they fill the ballpark, which means the owners are profitable. That's the win for them, not the standings.
At the end of the day, the fans truly need to stop giving the Mariners money, make the owners HAVE to make a change. That is the only way this franchise will ever do something meaningful.
See you next year, I guess.