I’ve had a lot of my things broken in my life. Some electronics, a few of those crappy three-ring binders, and a couple of tables. All of those things have something in common: they are tangible. They’re relatively easy to break. It’s not easy to break something that doesn’t have a physical form.
And yet, in classic Mariners fashion, the Mariners are the first ones to break something in me that’s intangible: a dream. Specifically the dream of 162-0. Can you imagine? The sell-out crowd to see the team that’s 161-0 play their last game. The sense of pure joy and disbelief as Dan Vogelbach hits a walk-off home run to steal the last game from Texas’s dirty hands?