Sometimes you can dread something so much that actually doing it feels like a relief, as you realize actually doing the thing isn’t as bad as dreading doing the thing. Hey, this hill is really hard to climb! Just like I knew it would be! Ouch! But okay! And sometimes you start doing the thing you dread, and even though you’ve mentally prepared yourself for how much it’s going to suck—oh my gosh this hill is so high it hurts so much I regret everything—it still sucks because your tiny human mind wasn’t able to fully conceptualize all the different ways this thing would suck out loud, and that’s what going from playing the Astros at home to playing the Yankees at home is going to be like.
Mariners go running up that hill, fall down hill, fall into briar patch, lose to Yankees 7-2
