"Almost Immortal"

That is the headline on ESPN.com with a picture of Ichiro and other players from great teams that didn't win championships. The article on ESPN's Page 2 ranks the 2001 Mariner team that won 116 games as the second biggest disappointment of all time. The Mariners tied the all-time wins record and then fell to the Yankees in five games. Seattle had another team on the list with the 1994 Sonics coming in at number 16 (the list has 18). The Sonics finished the regular season 63-19 that year, but then became the first ever one seed to lose in the first round to an eight seed (Dallas gave the Sonics some company last season when they lost to Golden State). The image of Dikembe Mutombo lying on the court clutching the ball at the end of game 5 no doubt still stings Sonics fans.