Today during his pregame press conference, Scott Servais opened with: “We are home. We are not in Kansas City anymore. Whew. Crazy stuff happened in Kansas, but we’re not there.”
Postgame, Servais said with a wry smile, “I was looking forward to getting back to normal when we got back home. That was not the case tonight.”
In retrospect, we should have seen this coming. Both Chuck from Circling Seattle Sports and I noted an unusual levity around the club today. Scott Servais started his pregame presser off with a joke. Tucker the team dog, who is usually standoffish and only lets people pet him in exchange for treats, followed the press out to the dugout and jumped onto the bench for pets from the assembled media.