in the twenty ought four era, when the hated Angels were good, a large part of it was because of their bullpen. It felt like impending doom after the sixth inning if the Mariners lacked a lead. It always started with Scott Shields, and his dopey looking glasses. He tended to pound the Mariners into cube steak with his slider.
After him, came boy wonder Francisco Rodriguez, who, finding Cube steak not good enough, ran the Mariners through a blender until they were liquid slop with his slider.
After that, Troy Percival came in for a plant inspection. He found that liquefieing the Mariners woefully distasteful and inadequate. He didn't believe that an enemy was thoroughly destroyed while it still maintained some cellular structure. Percival preferred disintegration through incendiary heat.