Yes indeedy, Padna.
Just looked at the MLB standings and caclulated the Dodgers' projected wins for the season at their current pace. It's One Hundred Eleven (111), by far best in franchise history. Pee Wee Reese' 1942 team won 104. Duke Snider's 1953 team won 105. In my lifetime they had 102 wins in 1962, and again in 1974. Since 1974 their best win total was 98 in 1977.
I rehearse all this because at one point just as the season got underway I had determined to throw off the sufferings of my artificial local allegiance to Seattle and return to my LA Dodgers roots. I had signed up for MLBtv and cut cable, so I could watch the Boys In Blue and forgo those in teal. As it turns out, I ended up following the Mariners and not the Dodgers. Again. And again, I have been rewarded with the usual suffering, when I could have enjoyed a historic Dodgers season.
Such is life for Mariners fans. As you say, "over and over again." The annual confidence statement that one of these years Seattle will break through seems to inevitably follow the road of the sun from that famous song in the musical "Annie." At some point in the season, I am moaning, "It's always a year away."