It’s increasingly funny to me that I opened the year with a post about dismissing past narratives. Because all we’ve really got are past narratives. Which one do you want? One-Run Magic? Julio the Savior? Power Outage at T-Mobile? Let’s…
Category: Let’s Go M’s
Sacramento 4, Seattle 2 (1-2)
I don’t want to dwell on this one. This was about as frustrating as a night of baseball can get. Some nights, your team gets blown out (last night). Some nights, your team gets shut out (last night). Some nights,…
Sacramento 7, Seattle 0 (1-1)
You gotta score a run. It’s a simple, painfully obvious principle, but one that I return to frequently while watching this incarnation of the Seattle Mariners. By “this incarnation,” I mean the 2020s team (2021-?) that wins frequently with crafty…
Seattle 4, Sacramento 2 (1-0)
Baseball is a game of narratives. It’s what we love about it, the storytelling, the slowly built drama that rises and falls over 2-3 hours and 162 games, a season so long it essentially doubles the nearest competitor in professional…
Concussion Protocol
On Wednesday morning, I got up with Graham and was helping him acclimate to his day. I usually tend to him first thing on days I’m not going into the office and it’s some of my favorite time with him.…
Anatomy of a Weekend: Chronicling a Whirlwind Trip to See the Mariners in Toronto for Wild Card Game 2
The cast: Storey, your narrator, a long-suffering Mariner fan who remembers every triumph and despair in three decades of fandom. Alex, his wife, who has rooted for several years of hopelessness, near-misses, and very recent success. Graham, their son (21…
Game 162, 2021
The Seattle Mariners are three years older than I am. I’m older than anyone on their roster by four years, but most of the team is much younger. Their manager, Scott Servais, was in Little League when two new franchises,…
Edwin Diaz and the Psychology of Baseball
There’s a lot going on in my life right now. I just moved across the country and it was every bit as arduous and joyous as that sounds. In less than a week, I go back to school for the…
No Cano, No Problem?
After the Buffalo Bills somehow made the playoffs on the last day of the 2017 NFL season, the dubious distinction of longest playoff drought in American professional sports fell to my beloved Seattle Mariners. In 2001, they set the record…
Five-Hundred
My friend Matt Frese posted, despondently, last night on Facebook, after the Washington Capitals’ 2-0 Game 7 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins in the NHL quarterfinals. He asked the following simple question, in the form of a statement: Not sure…