Julio Rodríguez is following in the right footsteps

Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty ImagesThere were two articles I considered writing for this morning.

One was about the Seattle Mariners, and how boned they are. I’ll save you the nonexistent click - they’re pretty boned! At least for this year, being 9.0 games under .500 is a difficult hill to surmount, even if they play up to their potential the rest of the way. It’s not impossible, as the recent Braves and Nationals have shown us, and they are ostensibly just 6.0 games back of the third Wild Card spot, but they trail the division by 11.0 games. Sweeping Houston this weekend would get them back to just 8.0 games back. It’d be a shocking outcome for the weekend, but it’d be the sort of start…