Detroit 9, Seattle 6 (2-3)

It has to be hard to be Emerson Hancock. He’s a guy with earnest potential and prodigious baseball talent (certainly compared to 99.999% of humans who will never play even mid-level professional baseball, much less make the Majors). But he’s…

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Seattle 2, Sacramento 1 (2-2)

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…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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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.…

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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,…

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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…

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