Between absurdly prescient home run predictions and a dominant stretch run from Felix Hernandez, the Mariners did something rarely seen since the days of John Olerud and Kazuhiro Sasaki -- they made September interesting. That carried into October, with fans at Safeco Field saying farewell to Ken Griffey Jr. Sunday for potentially the final time.

Junior sounds like he wants to come back, and the fans in attendance made their feelings clear about the same, but he's also a 39-year-old DH with a bad knee who slugged .411 this season. If Sunday was it, Griffey's next stop would be Cooperstown. And with 630 home runs and a clean reputation, does he deserve to break Tom Seaver's record (98.84 percent) and become the first unanimous Hall of Fame selection?

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