see that picture? it is the only view the baseball world will have of seattle the rest of the year as the mariners speed ahead. the mariners have won five of their last six and are now two games out of first place in the wild wild american league west.

“it is only may” you may say. “and they are still below .500.”

true enough, but i don’t care. they are on fire. and this wildfire will continue raging until october when they knock out the yankees and the red sox in the playoffs (or maybe the tigers or white sox) and then stick it to the cardinals in the world series. for a hint of what it might sound like when they win in the first round of the playoffs, listen to this. the players, of course, will be different, but the idea will be the same.

it could be a confusing world series for casual baseball fans, seeing as the television abbreviations for seattle and st. louis are sea and stl, respectively, and i have known people to confuse stl for seattle. rookie mistake.

other world series predictions are welcome, but please know that yours are wrong. seattle over st. louis. take it to the bank.