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Felix sets Mariner all-time wins record by winning

For a long time, longer than all of us probably care to remember, the Seattle Mariners have been masters of losing. They have baptized fans in the waters of the River Wallowing, made us drink from the cup of longing and misery, and every time we thought we'd learned our final lesson, they'd found another to teach. The records kept of defeats stretch infinitely back in our minds past the point of actual time. The timelessness we've felt has simply been that Mariners Baseball meant failure and an endless one. Yet, through all that pain, through summer breezes made musical by another losing call on the radio and attention cast elsewhere by July and forgetting about baseball being as much a ritual as remembering it ever existed, there has been Felix Hernandez.