Stone: Mirror, mirror on Mariners’ wall: Time for a hard look

Larry: stones.

It’s enough to make one wonder whose way of doing things is the right way — or at least, it should.

It’s not quite accurate to say no one saw this coming, the monumental debacle that has marked the first quarter of the M’s season.

There were, indeed, analysts who predicted this team was dangerously overrated, that it wasn’t the “one piece away” that the Bedard trade suggested — that the Mariners were, basically, a disaster waiting to happen. And they had the statistical evidence to back it up.

Kudos to them, most of whom come, it must be said, from a sabermetric bent, looking at the vast storehouse of numbers in nontraditional ways. And shame on me, who bought into the popular wisdom that last year’s 88-win record plus this year’s addition of Bedard equaled a championship run.