There will be no snark here, no parade-raining or buzz-killing.
Not today. Not on the National Day of Optimism, otherwise known as the home opener. Not after the Mariners made the champs look like chumps and sent balls flying out of T-Mobile Park like it was a T-ball stadium (to steal from a tweet).
We’ll deal with the rebuilding plan later. You can worry about the potential pitfalls and pratfalls another time. For now, the operative words are “blowout” and “unbeaten.” The operative numbers are 12-4, the margin by which the lowly regarded Mariners dispatched the feverishly celebrated Red Sox on Thursday.