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The Mariners blog-o-sphere guys should come take a tour of Yankee Stadium.
The guys who run the tours there talk all about how the 90s Yankees "knew how to win". And even most of the fans kind of roll their eyes. :) The same is true of the tour I got of Fenway Park when I visited Boston some years back.
So the cliches are everywhere...not just in Seattle. Even baseball orgs that are perceived by the Mariners as being smartly run such as the Braves, Cardinals, As and Yankees frequently explain moves to their fanbases as "this guy knew how to win" or "we like his veteran presence in the line-up"