Life is full of unanswerable questions. What happens to the night during daytime? Are we all an amalgamation of the world around us, or does the world reflect all of us? Why are literally any of us here? Is Elon Musk the world’s smartest dumb guy or dumbest smart guy?
The nice part of simpler, binary questions is the closure that comes from their resolutions. Even though it’s a cold comfort, the question of “Did the Mariners make the playoffs” has rendered a hard result each September after 2001. No.
As such, there’s been a lot of baseball in Seattle that has no implications on the playoff picture.