One of my favorite bits of media is a YouTube series called ‘Monster Factory’. It’s run by our sister (cousin? Affiliate-in-law?) site Polygon by two of the internet-famous McElroy brothers. The premise is simple, and one many video gamers are familiar with; they take a game that allows you to customize your character’s design and test the absolute limits of that game’s capabilities. The show’s core ethos is simple enough for a single sentence, and it is just as true for the 2019 Mariners: no middle sliders.
If you’re unfamiliar with video gaming, you might be rushing to pull up some clips of Anthony Swarzak this year to counter that assertion, but in this case we’re referring to sliders on (typically) a scale of 0-to-100.