Wade Miley was a little puzzling, but the lure of the basepaths finally did the M's in on Saturday, losing to the Royals 5-3.
In a way, it was about as routine as a colonoscopy in your sixties. But then again, there are few things less experientially "routine" than a colonoscopy, no matter your age. You can't drive home afterwards. Your body, having undergone a form of mild trauma, requires hard drugs in order to fool it into thinking what just happened, maybe, didn't. It is suggested that to cope you spend hours sitting on the couch for a while, maybe crying in the process.