The Seattle Mariners: A Legacy of Failure 

I don't understand how some of the best players of the last 25 years were all miraculously in Seattle at one point in time.

You forgot to say Johnson won the world series the year the Mariners went 116-46

April 11, 2019: Mariners best record in baseball at 13-2 June 11, 2019: Mariners have gone 15-40 since.

Calling it right now They’re going to play great until September and miss the playoffs again

Nintendo somehow put together a better baseball team on the NES than they did in real life

Anyone else watching SB Nation's series on the Mariners? To those who haven't, it's awesome

Congrats, Mariners. You did to King Felix what the Browns did to Joe Thomas: Wasted a generational talent that never once made it to the playoffs

That Mario at 1:28 BTW, Nintendo of America owns ten percent of the Mariners as of now.

You forgot the part where the Bills made the playoffs, passing the title of “longest playoff drought” down to this cursed team

“I hope you don’t make it back here for another 20 years” Well we’re almost there. Edit: We hit 20 years 🤪

I was wondering why theres Nintendo Ads only in the Mariners's Stadium. Makes sense.

Congratulations Mariners, you are now the least successful franchise who has no World Series appearances.

Having lived in WA from 2003-2014 it was agonizing watching them, but it was amazing watching Ichiro. Also Felix's perfect game was a highlight. Also the stadium is fantastic.

The Legacy of Failure we needed but didn't deserve...thank you Tree.

Here after the Mariners fired Servais and brought back Dan Wilson and Edgar Martinez... praying for the best at this point lol

Portland will probably make the World Series before the M's return to the playoffs and yet Portland doesn't have a stadium yet.

Forgot to bring up the dick-punch that cost the Mariners a shot at 117 wins, which would have set the record. The Mariners that season became the 1st team since 1925 (and 3rd overall) to blow a 12-run lead. They led the Indians 14-2 heading into the bottom of the 7th inning before the Indians scored 3, 4, and 5 runs in the 7th, 8th, and 9th respectively and won it in the 11th inning. That said, the Mariners got the last laugh over the Indians that season in the ALDS (barely). And then they got dick-punched by the Yankees in the ALCS

Mariners rn: 11-2 Mariners end of year: sub .500, miss playoffs The legacy continues

SB Nation has since done a documentary on how they are the weirdest team in sports history.

The Ichiro Shogunate was the best example of a team wasting a phenomenal players talent.

2021: Where the hell did this late season surge come from? Know what, doesn't matter. There's a possible 6-way tie for the AL wild card with less than a week to go in the season. Sweep the leg. Sept. 26th 2021: The Red Sox refuse to allow chaos to reign and knock you out of playoff contention.

Let’s pray that Seattle’s future NHL team doesn’t end up like the Mariners or the SuperSonics.

I've been a Mariner fan since they started. This summary was so painful to watch, yet I couldn't help but laugh through my tears at the commentary. Job well done...

The Mariners: Because you can't be disappointed if you expect nothing.

Said it before and I'll say it again: Cleveland Indians: Baseball's Trail of Tears

This has aged well.

Hey look everyone Ken Griffey, he’s a fossil but NOSTALGIA! 😂

damn, the amount of talent that the mariners had at one point in the late 90's is staggering. shameful that they could never make it past the ALCS

POOR ICHIRO (secretly laughs in athletics, while secretly secretly crying in athletics over Kyler Murray)

What a waste of a 116 win season!

I won’t lie, these tree baseball videos have really helped me get back into the sport. And it’s helped me learn more about each sport like details and stat wise. So not only do you give me funny as videos but they’re informative as hell. Keep up the good work tree

1:26 Nintendo buys the Mariners. 4:20 uses the final Bowser fight theme from Super Mario 64. 5:57 Song of Storms from Zelda. GENIUS!

The Mariners, a team where their only biggest accomplishment was pitching the last perfect game in the MLB.

Coming back to this cause they are doing it AGAIN

Watch as Seattle's new NHL team makes the playoffs before Mariners do.

10:33 “Hey look everyone! Ken Griffey! He’s a fossil, but NOSTALGIA!” 😂

Good news: the Mariners have FINALLY broken the drought AND won a playoff series against the Blue Jays. Bad news: Agony, thy name is Yordan Alvarez and Jeremy Peña. Even after their best season in 20+ years, Seattle still finds a way to punch their fans in the dick.

As a Mariners fan this was much needed. But still a die hard fan! Go Ms!

Yeesh...even as a sorry Mets fan who saw his OWN 2023 horror story, I've gotta say, Mariners fans... Eliminated in the second to last game of the season. Not one but TWO Texas teams sink the M's ship. *Now THAT was a cup-buster of a baseball dick punch.*

*Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for the Browns to go full Brown next year*

And still the only team that's yet to make the World Series and only team to be swept in the divisional series. At least I got two games worth of baseball in person.

unlike the mariners, this did not dissapoint me

"KEEP BLOWING LENNY!! ITS NOT GONNA MAKE THE MARINERS LESS SHITTY!!" I love that one it cracks me up to this day when I think about it.

Do The “State of Arizona” The Legacy of Failure

2020: Despite a 27-33 shortened season you nearly make the playoffs yet again. You finish five games out of the second wild card spot and two games from the second place berth, which you basically handed to the 29-31 Houston Astros by losing seven of ten against them. 2021: This is their year. They may be 3 and a half games out at the start of September but the Mariners are hot. The thing is you have four other teams to deal with. September 12, 2021: The Blue Jays have won 11 of 12, the Yankees and Red Sox are still playing extremely well and you're struggling to take off. At least Oakland's collapsing. That's one less team to deal with. September 29, 2021: This is it. The Mariners have won 10 of their last 11 and are only half a game out. You're going to make it. I don't believe it! October 3, 2021: And you lose two of three to the Angels and finish two games out. At least Toronto tried to make the final push. 2022: You start slow but suddenly begin a 14-game win streak to return to contention. You're in the second wild card spot with a 1.5 game cushion. It's time to make some noise. 2022 Wild Card series: They've done it. They've ended the drought. They shut out the Blue Jays in Game 1 of the Wild Card series, but they're down 8-1 in the second game. What's this? You scored four runs in the sixth inning? However, it's still a four-run game as Toronto tacks on another run in the seventh. But it turns out the Blue Jays have a terrible bullpen so you score four more in the eighth to tie it, and one more in the ninth to win it. 2022 ALDS: It doesn't matter! The Mariners blow a lead of their own in both Game 1 and 2, and then proceed to torture their fans for eighteen innings before giving up a solo home run to Jeremy Peña. The dick punch has returned once again.

2019: The Mariners get off to a great start, and then proceed to crash and burn, leaving them in the cellar of the AL West. At least they have some fun veterans like Edwin Encarnacion and young talents like Mitch Haniger and Justus Sheffield to provide them entertainment and maybe just a little bit of hope for the future? Oh, Sheffield's in Triple A? Oh, Edwin's a Yankee? Oh, Haniger LITERALLY busted a nut? NOW they're the TRUE Mariners.

I came back to watch this after I finished Jon Bois' master thesis, I compared this as UTree's loud and impossible to drive safely muscle car of the 1960s and 1970s to Jon Bois' modern luxury sports car that handles the road and drives faster with better gas mileage. Both are entertaining and fun but for completely different reasons.

As a Mariners fan, I understand what Cleveland Browns fans must feel like. Oh, and there'll be a Super Bowl at Wembley Stadium before the Mariners return to the postseason.

Who's here after they got punched in the dick in 2021? Lost 2 of 3 to the Angels, and missed the playoffs AGAIN!!!

And with that, we're the only AL West team without a World Series win, let alone make it.

Anyone else watching this in 2021 after the Mariners got dick-punched yet again?

2023: Your longtime brother in failure in the Texas Rangers finally exorcise their demons. They win the Fall Classic thus making the M's the only team in the AL West to have zero pennants (let alone World Series). Does it feel cold? You should've know this for a while. The baseball continues to show zero mercy to the Emerald City. Amen.

Bad News: The Mariners dick punch their fans with a 1-0 18 inning sweep by the Astros Good News: The Mariners still won a playoff game AND a series (something the T’s haven’t done since 2004)

And now the drought is finally over! For the first time since I was a toddler my Mariners are going to be playing October ball. I don't even care if they have an early exit, this is still progress after what the last 20+ years have been like. We actually have a future to look forward to with this current corp we have.

5:58 Also, that Randy Johnson guy just won a World Series with the Diamondbacks; a team that isn't even 5 years old! Good idea trading him, Seattle.

The season is over. The Seattle mariners are going to collapse and the Cheating Astros are going to undeservingly win the division. I hate everything. The talented pitchers we have are never winning a ring here. It’s over I can’t believe it. Another notch to the legacy of failure is added.

Is there going to be a. I’d on the AAF folding and collapsing?

Now in 2023 (the year after finally making the playoffs) the Mariners go back to their old ways of finding a way to blow it.

Detroit Lions: A Legacy of Failure Edit: please like it so urinating can see this

Absolutely love the hilarious dialogue combined with your sarcastic tone. This gave me a good laugh. I hope the Mariners can win a WS someday.

August. Mariners go 21-6. Leads division. Hottest team in baseball. Not even halfway through September and they're out of the playoffs. They went 3-8 so far. And yet, I still believe.

“I hope you don’t make it for another 20 years…” They indeed didn’t make it for another 20 years.

5:52 people tree told us they the mariners will be back in 22

FASTEST-BLOWN DOUBLE-DIGIT DIVISION LEAD IN MLB HISTORY BABY!!! -Signed, a very new baseball fan who's leaning on picking this as his favorite team (aka making the greatest mistake of his life)

Poor Seattle sports fans. Mariners blowing it all up, Sonics leaving, Malcolm Butler. Jeez.

The Mariners have clinched a playoff spot in nearly 21 years. They are back in the playoffs.

This Legacy of Failure video has aged well: -Eliminated by the Texas Rangers in Game 161 -That same Texas Rangers team goes on to win the World Series Big ouch if you’re a Mariners fan…

We have the Sounders and the Seahawks at least.

August 2021: You aren’t dick punching but are one of the most clutch teams even as you are in a tank/rebuild. That’s good news at least. Late September: Holy Shit. You went on a tear and got revenge for 2018 by super dick punching the Oakland A’s and their Fans out of the Playoffs and you are in contention for a playoff appearance in the 162nd game. Game 162 - October 3rd 2021: The Angels Play Spoiler and smoke your teams hopes and dreams on the open prairie for all to see as Kyle Seager was also wasted away. Despite it being bittersweet, it’s a good finish to a Successful Season. The Rebuild is looking to be done sooner rather than later. You’ll be back here again. Well done Boys as I’m Proud of you. Spring Training 2022: You dialed it up a notch and look incredibly promising over Spring Training with two new bats and two top prospects making the team and raking when they hit (J-Rod) or pitch (Kirby). This might finally be the year to go to the promised land. April 2022: You’re red hot off the bat and nothing is stop-

Mariners 2021: they aren't terrible, but they aren't great. Could try to make a push for the wild card if the hitting can get better and if the bullpen gets it together.

I will say a name that will strike terror in the heart every Mariners fan.... Bobby Ayala 😫

*HEY LOOK, KEN GRIFFEY* Sure hes a fossil but *NOSTALGIA*

I’m also waiting for when he eventually makes one about the Brewers. Our history definitely has been embarrassing, but I still love em. I’ll probably be laughing when that video comes out being like “yup I remember that one.”

I'm really hoping this is the year, the team is so promising. RU-vid recommending this video to me three years later is super wholesome lmao

The Mariners Finally made it back to the playoffs, but their failure isn’t over until they make it to the World Series.

The Seattle Mariners - MLBs dickpunch ....also this video was a long time coming. Awesomeness :)

September 30, 2022 Cal Raleigh ended the 21 year drought.

0:47 “Keep blowing Lenny it’s not going to make the Mariners less shitty!” Brilliant. I died laughing at that.

Speaking of the Pilots, you really should do one of these for the Brewers.

2022: MEET THE FUTURE OF MARINERS BASEBALL IN JULIO RODRIGUEZ. I’m very interested to see how this team develops him…. probably poorly.

Hi again, here we are. Another kick to the dick because the Cleveland Browns and Tampa Bay Buccaneers made the NFL playoffs. Leaving just the Mariners and Sacramento Kings as one of the last sports teams who've last made the playoffs in the 2000s.

Just watched the Mariners get Eliminated from the Wild card by One game, and came straight to this to have a good laugh

“I hope you don’t make it back here in another 20 years” Well he was right little over 20 years and the Mariners are back in the playoffs

5:37 And now the mariners have Won a Wildcard game

I hope you don't make it back for another 20 years, may game 5 haunt you for eternity farewell!! Well, they finally went to the playoffs for the first time in 20 years and they won a series today, I'm hoping they don't have to play with the Yankees again, Oh wait you're going to play against Houston first, Good luck Mariners!!

Ah, it’s the baseball team Nintendo once partially owned. This video should be good. By the way, has anyone in the comment section ever played Ken Griffey Jr.’s Slugfest? It’s a pretty good baseball game

16:53 “Once again out-shown by, you guessed it, THE FUCKING ATHLETICS!” 9:37 “Can you guys PLEASE stop with the ball-busting for one goddamn moment?!” 0:47 “Keep blowing, Lenny! It’s not gonna make the Mariners less shitty!” 5:53 “May Game 5 haunt you for an eternity, farewell.” 7:11 “Great news, boys! Your contending window has slammed shut in your face! You’re terrible again!” 4:33 "That tingly sensation turns out to be diabetes."

When you drafted Dustin Ackley over the notable following All-Stars: Nolan Arenado Paul Goldschmidt DJ LeMahieu Patrick Corbin Dallas Keuchel And wait for it..... the GOAT Mike Trout

SB Nation brought me back here

I am honored to say that my favorite baseball team is a Legacy of Failure!

The only team in MLB to never win a pennant (World Series appearance)

Dipoto and Servais are trying to get you to make an update starring them lol

I’m an M’s fan.. Congratulations Mariners, you have failed to make the postseason in 2023!

The 1-2 punch of Willie Bloomquist and Jeremy Reed is hard to overlook.

The sad part about the recent history is Kyle Seager was a good contact hitter and they beyond mis managed him. He had the look of a possible 285 to 305 hitter.

Hiroshi Yamauchi: the late former owner of the Mariners and former president of Nintendo. Never played a single video game, and never went to a Mariners game…

October 1st 2022: the longest playoff appearance drought in ALL of North American sports is finally over. For the first time since 2001, the Seattle Mariners are PLAYOFF BOUND

A historical year by Julio. Wasted. A historical month. Wasted. First place in the AL West. Wasted. Cal Raleigh's best statistical season as a catcher. Wasted. Fire Scott into the Sun. And Jerry too. Along with John "pennypincher" Stanton. #SeaUsDIE

The Mariners will soon become the fourth most popular pro sports team in the Seattle area: 1. Seahawks 2: NHL team 3: Sonics 4: Mariners Behind one team that doesn't exist yet and one team that hasn't existed since 2008.

Let us gather as Seattle finally makes the playoffs again