The Mariners' 21-Year Playoff Drought Is (Almost) Over
The Lead
Wondery
3.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In the fall of 2001… Sugar Ray was playing on your local radio station, the Patriots were suddenly forced to play their backup quarterback — a guy named Tom Brady — and the movie Zoolander had just come out in theaters. That’s how long it’s been since the Seattle Mariners made the playoffs. Today, The Athletic’s Corey Brock tells us about the rising superstar (Julio Rodriguez) and unsung supporting cast who are powering a Mariners renaissance, and what it would mean to the team — and the city — to have Seattle playing again in October.
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| 0:41.0 | Let's flash back for a second to the fall of 2001. |
| 0:47.6 | Sugar Ray was playing on your local radio station. |
| 0:50.7 | The Patriots were forced to play their backup portabac, some guy named Tom Brady. |
| 0:55.7 | The movie Zoolander had just come out in theaters. |
| 1:07.3 | That was the last time the Seattle Mariners made the playoffs. |
| 1:11.0 | The longest postseason droughts among any team in Major League Baseball, the NFL, the NBA, |
| 1:16.9 | or NHL. |
| 1:19.5 | And now 21 years later, the Mariners looked like they're finally. |
| 1:23.8 | On their way back to the postseason. |
| 1:25.8 | Get it up, baby. |
| 1:26.8 | Get it up. |
| 1:27.8 | Get it up. |
| 1:28.8 | Get it up. |
| 1:29.8 | And the Mariners went in the sport game. |
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