Mariners Game #47 Preview, 5/22/23: Oakland at Seattle

I’m going to be honest, the trident celebration has sat a little funny with me because I distinctly remember the Oakland Athletics using the trident back in 2021 and being annoyed because clearly that should have been our thing. Even at the time, our fellow blog Athletics Nation pondered the implications of Oakland taking what should have been, by all of Getty image rights, Seattle’s symbol. And what happened to the Oakland Athletics after the 2021 season, you might ask? Nothing good, is the answer. Anyway, I’m sure this is all a funny coincidence and not at all a case of astronauts coming back from the moon to tell us trident’s haunted.