I don’t want to do this.
I don’t blame you for not wanting to read it, and would totally understand if you didn’t at all.
The Seattle Mariners, a near-constant source of joy from March through the first week of July, have cratered. Each loss sinks them deeper and deeper into the crater, with today marking the date they finally reach the lava. It is an enormous bummer made worse by the stadium takeover dastardly executed by our neighbors from the north.
The trajectory of this season feels like a lived experience in “Tis better to have loved and lost then never loved at all.