If you love somebody, trade them to a contender
With his performance in Sunday’s series-clinching win for the Milwaukee Brewers, old pal Wade Miley completed a yearly tradition. His 4.2 innings of shutout ball—at Coors Field no less, where pitchers’ are often carried out in a casket—was both highly improbable and totally predictable. You see, every year during October, the normal spookiness of the season is exacerbated for Mariner fans. Seattle supporters are forced to re-live...