This is the second column in a row I have written about a New York City baseball franchise, which will invariably lead to the charge of East Coast bias, snobbery and ignorance of anything interesting that happens west of Hoboken, N.J.
I hear you. I will let you know you have an ally in the editor of this here Journal sports page, a die-hard fan of the Seattle Mariners. There are days he—the boss—wonders what the Mariners have to do to get covered in this section. Would Seattle have to finally make the playoffs? Win a World Series? Three in a row? If the Mariners won three World Series in a row, he fears his reporters might cover it thusly: YANKEES DON’T WIN.
