Mariners Sunday mailbag: What’s it like to cover a team that hasn’t made the playoffs in 17 seasons?

Mariners Sunday mailbag: What’s it like to cover a team that hasn’t made the playoffs in 17 seasons?

Their last winning season was in 2009. Before their three-year stretch of the playoff seasons in 2013-15, the Pirates went 20 years without the playoffs or a winning record while investing minimal …