With the Mariners having been bad for so much of their history, fans don’t have much experience with things going the right way early in the season. Mariners fans are most well-versed in season-long misery; recent years have taught them how to suffer through early-season misery only to see the team come alive down the back stretch, just to miss the playoffs by a few agonizing games (and, in one brief moment of beauty, make the playoffs). This is an altogether new kind of misery: watching the team sprint out to an early lead, and then watching them slowly, agonizingly, fritter it away.
Orioles 2, Mariners 0: The One in Which Mariners Fans Loudly Announce They’re Over It
