The Seattle Mariners, taking the simple concept of a rebuilding year and expanding it into the concept of a rebuilding decade. We're entering out 11th "rebuilding" year with no end in sight, so I'm not holding out much hope for the franchise. It's like they forget every year that we need both good pitchers and good batters. One year we have some good batters but only one good pitcher, so they realize that they need to get more pitchers, but they trade the good batters to get them. Then, the next year they have a few good pitchers, but we can't hit the ball worth a damn and they realize they need more good batters, but they trade the good pitchers to get them. I think we're in the 4th or 5th evolution of this cycle and this year we traded our up-and-coming star pitcher away again. But bear with us, it's a rebuilding year. We're bringing in a lot of good young players who'll help us grow the team back to our glory days of finishing the season close to, or maybe even above, the .500 mark. And they wonder why the ballpark is always so damn empty every season.