Highlights: The Seattle Mariners remain MLB's only franchise without a World Series appearance Five franchises still have zero World Series titles Other leagues still have multiple “never reached the final” teams The Seattle Mariners were so agonizingly close,

Columnist Jim Moore, aka @cougsgo, suspects it doesn't matter how much we want good things to happen for the Mariners.

It would have been a lot easier for everyone involved if the Mariners just closed out the Blue Jays in Game 6 and punched their first-ever World Series ticket.

For six years, the Seattle Mariners have been the sole members of a club nobody wants to be a part of. But that club could be folding very soon.

The Mariners are on the cusp of the first pennant in franchise history. With a 6-2 win on Friday in Game 6, Seattle is now a win against the Toronto Blue Jays from advancing to the World Series. At minimum, this is the closest the M's have ever been.

No problem: the Rangers promptly swept through Tampa Bay, Baltimore, Houston and Arizona, going 11-0 on the road to win their only championship. On their World Series ring s, they engraved the first letters of their opponents’ names – Rays, Orioles, Astros, Diamondbacks.

Eugenio Suárez sent T-Mobile Park into bedlam with an eighth-inning grand slam off Toronto reliever Seranthony Domínguez for a 6-2 win over the Blue Jays that has put the Seattle Mariners one win away from a trip to the World Series.

Do you consider yourself the biggest Mariners fan in Washington? Or do you know someone worthy of that honor? Tell us!