SEATTLE -- It had been 24 years and five days since this city experienced its last division title, a wait that turned its baseball fans into one of this country's most tortured. Babies were born, grew up, went to college, got a job, and their beloved Seattle Mariners still had not finished atop the American League West. Maybe this is how it was supposed to happen. With a nucleus that finally righted itself -- after stumbling time and again -- in the most emphatic way possible. With a dominant, soul-cleansing, late-season series sweep of the franchise's greatest nemesis.
Seattle Mariners might have the mojo to finally win it all
