Now this is why I love cheering for our local team.

http://www.seattleweekly.com/2012-07-11/arts/the-weekly-wire-this-week-s-recommended-events/

Is it wrong to continually cheer for any other team to beat the Mariners? Why do I get some sick twisted pleasure in watching them find new and innovative ways to lose games, while people continually fill Safeco Field?

"That a major-league baseball franchise produces a memorably productive starting pitcher only every dozen years is as sure a signal as any that the Mariners are one of the most poorly run organizations in the history of professional sports. If you still believe, you're a masochist. The draw here is the Texas Rangers (visiting through Sunday), who've risen from a similar run of futility to become everything the Mariners aren't: entertaining, cohesive, and consistently successful."

In the team's defense, at present the Rangers haven't won a championship either.

But wait - here's the best part, a grim reminder that the most public male image of the Pacific Northwest is so impotent, emasculated, and to a large extent dominated by latent misandry -

"Oh, and tonight there's a "Girls' Night Out" promotion at the park, with free manicures 'n shit."