New York Yankee Haters Unite: We’re Three Wins Away from a Victory for Baseball

Posted: 29th October 2009 by Kenny Stein in MLB
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The year was 1995.  I was 12-years old.  And I fell in love for the first time. Hard.  And anybody who was living in Seattle in the time can tell you who I fell for, because 1995 is perhaps the fondest year remembered in the modern Seattle era.  The Seattle Mariners were going to the playoffs for the first time and it wasn't easy.  They came back from a 13-game, mid-August deficit (many of those wins coming through late-inning heroics) to force a 1-game playoff with the California Angels. They were facing Mark Langston, the ace that they traded away to acquire Randy Johnson. They won. Then in the ALDS they faced the winningest franchise in the history of popular American sports, the New York Yankees, a team that had not made the playoffs since 1 ...

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