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Mariners have reason to think tide has turned

By Jim Caple
ESPN.com

Friday, April 22, 2005

At this point last season, the Mariners hadn't exactly started reserving tee times at their favorite offseason golf courses but they might as well have. They lost their first five games and seven of their first eight. By late April they were so deep in the American League West cellar that they were able to write off the mortgage interest on their tax returns. "When it kept snowballing and snowballing on us last year,'' second baseman Bret Boone said, "if we got down by four or five runs, we kne ...

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