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Twitter mailbag: Will Felix Hernandez pitch in the postseason if the Mariners make it? Cano to first base? And Magnum P.I.?

ANAHEIM, Calif. — After a brief hiatus, the Twitter mailbag is back for another exciting session of asked and answered questions about the Mariners, baseball, the existence of life and apparently 1980s television series.

These are real questions from my eclectic mix of Twitter followers, who are passionate to the point of amusing and at times terrifying.

Somewhere in the midst of my sixth story written on a newsy Friday in Mariners’ world, I wrote this …

Hernandez’s season of ups, downs, runs allowed in the first inning, command issues, modified warmups and changed routines has made him into a pitching version of Hamlet, a tormented royal with a constant inner conflict of who he once was versus who he has to be going forward.