1.   Showed disturbing trend in blowing double-digit leads and having to come back late in wins over Cal and Stanford.

2.   And in all three games, the Mariners have blown the lead late in the game.

3.   And on Christmas Day in Indiana, they blew a lead early.

4.   Anyone who witnessed the Saturday night fiasco in the Kingdome, when the Mariners blew a six-run lead in the eighth inning, agrees.

5.   At least five times, the Clippers have blown big leads or waited until they were buried before gathering themselves.

6.   Both teams blew two leads.

7.   After blowing the lead to the Boston Red Sox in an ugly seventh inning, the Mets needed a jolt in the eighth.

8.   Again and again, the bullpen blew leads that the offense tried valiantly to recover, and the team was beaten twice in Colorado.

9.   All those fourth-quarter leads the Knicks blew last season?

10.   But the stopper Jose Mesa was not, blowing the lead with one out in the ninth when he allowed two hits and a sacrifice fly by Counsell.