The best cure for your "we made it" blues, OP, is this. Walk around Occidental two hours before a Mariners game. If it is anything like this past Saturday, there will be a handful of people in various eateries and concessions stands, some opposing fans and a few Mariner fans heading to the game.
It brought me back to the Husky Stadium days and the early days of Seahawks Stadium when you could barely tell that there was an NFL game about to be played. I went and cheered my butt off, same as now, but never even dared to dream of a championship season. It was so remote and even though some of the pieces of the first real run since Knox were falling into place, I sure couldn't tell.
Man, it is better to be on the other side of a championship season with a team that has a legitimate shot at a rePete.
If you want to join a 'lovable loser' go get yourself a Mariner jersey and hop on that bus. I'm sure that bandwagon is gathering rust in a auto wrecking lot somewhere. Someday, maybe, you can be complaining about being a Mariner fan when...