Every Sunday I publish a schedule, done through Google Docs, as a sign-up sheet for the writers for the upcoming week. In-season, filling the schedule is no problem, between recaps and game threads and About Last Night articles and analysis and minors updates and news that needs to be blurbed. During baseball season, the machine that is Lookout Landing hums along on mostly renewable energy. Almost every day during the season, something happens, something merits talking about.
The energy of the off-season is much different. After a self-imposed hibernation that begins around the postseason (because heaven knows the Mariners aren’t part of that), during which the writers do things like make nice to the employers who are willing to look the other way during baseball season, or rediscover the joy of exercise, or hug their children, or finally do enough laundry to see the bottom of their bedroom floor in months, around about November we start to look towards next season.