As we re-learn how to experience winning baseball, let's pause and appreciate Franklin Gutierrez hitting a baseball to Mars.
Watching losing baseball year after year without devolving into hysterics requires the fan/viewer to learn to appreciate individual moments. Experiencing season after season devoid of an enjoyable overarching story, we look for the clever turns of phrase, the redeeming characters, and surprising individual moments.
This sort of mental compartmentalization was almost required if you were going to make it through a Mariners season in the past. You let the losses wash over you, and try to numb yourself to the familiar cold slap in the face when they hit you, and then opened your eyes and tried to find something beautiful on the horizon.