The acceptance comes from realizing that Felix hasn’t been his phenom teenage self for years. It’s coming to terms with the end of an era. Including myself, there are those who would want Felix to hang up his cleats with the Mariners despite his performance decline.
It’s remembering that despite our favorite players over the years, baseball is a business and an extension would eat up too much salary during a rebuild that’s going okay so far.
Many of your fans had a hunch this would be the King’s swan song as a Mariner in 2019. Which is why it’s frustrating that he was out with injury for most of the last hoorah.