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Tails never fails

The 2025 Mariners are no more.  I already wrote my season recap. I intentionally published it before the playoffs to feel like I could say something objective without the benefit of hindsight. The playoffs are random, if you hadn’t heard. They’re a short series of coin flips. The best player in MLB can lose. The […]

MLB Mariners

3 months ago | 2 reads

There’s some crying in baseball

I was seven years old when I had my heart broken for the first time. Funnily enough, it wasn’t by the Mariners. The year was 2001. The Mariners had lost in the ALCS the year before, but I was too young to understand what that meant. My brain must have undergone some maturation that winter […]

MLB Mariners

3 months ago | 2 reads

Dear Tim (again)

Hey Tim, Last time I wrote* was to exalt. Today it’s in desolation. Mariners baseball, huh? Last night, your Seattle Mariners lost Game 7 of the ALCS to the Toronto Blue Jays. I refuse to get into bullpen management discourse with you again, but suffice to say that it was a heartbreaker. That’s kind of […]

MLB Mariners Blue Jays

3 months ago | 2 reads

Mariners’ magical run comes to an end in 4-3 loss to Blue Jays

It was always going to Game 7. The Mariners have given fans a magical ride this season, but they haven’t always made it easy. Whether extra-inning games, or late-inning heroics, or winning streaks followed by losing streaks, or pushing things to the make-or-break moments, the Mariners have been playing Game 7 in one form or […]

MLB Mariners Blue Jays

3 months ago | 3 reads

ALCS, 3-4: Chart

Blue Jays 4, Mariners 3 Going farther than you’ve ever been: George Kirby, .111 WPA Having the journey end: Eduard Bazardo, -.384 WPA Game thread comment of the day: Thank you to everyone who’s been on this crazy ride with us this season. We appreciate you, each and every one. (Except those of you we […]

MLB Blue Jays Mariners

3 months ago | 2 reads

ALCS Game 7 Preview: Mariners at Blue Jays

One more “never been done before in team history” tonight; this is the first and last time we will say this: The Mariners are playing in their first-ever Game 7 of the ALCS tonight for the opportunity to go to the World Series. Regardless of what happens tonight, what a ride it’s been. Lineups: The […]

MLB Mariners Blue Jays

3 months ago | 2 reads

Do not be careful with your hope

The fires are mild this summer. I know because we’ve journeyed east on schedule. It will be five years before my window for this time shrinks from a Carlos Vargas target to George Kirby’s. Five years til we go from seasons of adventure to a weekend in August, sandwiched between 80 of my baseball games […]

MLB Red Sox

3 months ago | 2 reads

Mariners force Game 7

The Mariners will play in their first ever Game 7. The Mariners lost 6-2 on Sunday in a sloppy, bad ALCS Game 6. A shaky outing from Logan Gilbert and poor defense behind him allowed the Blue Jays to get out to an early lead. The lineup struggled to get much going at the plate […]

MLB Mariners Blue Jays

3 months ago | 2 reads

ALCS, 3-3: Chart

Blue Jays 6, Mariners 2 A chance to go to the World Series: Eugenio Suárez, .051 WPA A chance to go to the World Series: Logan Gilbert, -.247 WPA Game Thread Comment of the Day

MLB Blue Jays Mariners

3 months ago | 1 read

ALCS Game 6 Preview: Mariners at Blue Jays

The Mariners will move on to something new tonight. Game 6 of the ALCS is Sunday at 5:03 p.m. PDT. The Mariners lead the series 3-2. If they win, they advance to their first ever World Series. If they lose, they’ll play in their first ever Game 7. The Mariners won the first two games […]

MLB Mariners Blue Jays

3 months ago | 2 reads

Mariners name Logan Gilbert Game 6 ALCS starter

Dan Wilson and the Mariners announced at a pregame conference on Saturday that Logan Gilbert will take the mound for Game 6 of the ALCS. The Blue Jays will also run back their Game 2 starter, starting rookie Trey Yesavage. Gilbert didn’t have a strong outing against the Blue Jays in Game 2, getting bailed […]

MLB Mariners Blue Jays

3 months ago | 2 reads

Seattle is a baseball town

There is no freeze at the corner of Edgar and Dave. Strangers are hugging in the stands, dancing together outside the gates, exchanging high fives as they pass along First Ave. Our extended Seattle summer is winding down, but there is a warmth around the ballpark – around the city, the region, the Mariners fandom […]

MLB Mariners

3 months ago | 2 reads

Jonny Farmelo Starts Strong in Arizona Fall League

After an injury riddled 18 months of rehab, backfield games, and physical therapy, Jonny Farmelo, one of the top Mariner farm hands and a consensus top one hundred prospect in the game, is putting on a clinic in the Arizona Fall League and proving he’s worthy of his lofty rankings despite a somewhat limited track […]

MLB Mariners

3 months ago | 2 reads