About two weeks ago, I frog-marched everyone on staff to a Google doc and demanded they participate in a collab piece titled “how sustainable are these Mariners?” The piece was intended to publish fresh off the first, triumphant homestand, but then something changed. The Mariners started losing. “No problem,” I thought, “I’ll just save this for when the losing skid ends and update all the numbers.” But then the losing skid skidded on. And on. And all the way across the country and back to T-Mobile, on and on and on.
How slowly things change in baseball at the macro level, and how quickly at the micro level.