One of my favortie phenomena in the English language is the contranym or autoantonym, which is a word that has two opposite definitions. For example, oversight means both looking over something and failing to see something.
The 2022 Mariners have been the living embodiment of the an autoantonym. At times, like after the Angels series in mid-June, they’ve seemed to be compltely toast. At others, like after the August/September seven-game winning streak, they’ve seemed inevitable. They’ve dramatically beaten the Yankees, Mets, and Braves, and flailingly lost to the A’s, the A’s, and the A’s. The Mariners left a euphoric home stand and then spent the bulk of this road trip re-enacting George Brett’s most famous (probably apocryphal?