Why Seahawks must focus on "the farm system" instead of trading for the next "Erik Bedard"

It’s been over 10 years since I’ve even thought of the word “Mariners” and what it symbolizes. It doesn’t take more than a minute of browsing their recent past on baseball-reference to remember that in American sports, Mariners still stands for “no playoffs.”

The longest playoff drought of any team in the MLB, NFL, NBA, or NHL. And yet, four winning reco…