Dear Mariners' Fans

I'm sorry.

I was just looking at the calendar and realized that this collapse that the Mariners are in is quite possible my fault. You see the day that the skid started was the same day that I went from cautiously pessimistic to cautiously optimistic. That was the day I put my money down on 2007 Mariners' Playoff tickets.

I really should have known better. I knew that this team was not as good as they appeared in the standings. I recognize the look of things held together with duct tape and bailing wire. Yet I had to add one more straw on the back of the camel.