Hello and welcome back to FanPost Friday! Summer is (somehow) already here and it’s officially baseball weather in the Northwest. When the Mariners return home next week, you can probably go to games without bringing two coats and a blanket! We’ve made it!
Today, instead of talking more about how badly Kolten Wong is playing or why the Mariners should have spent more in the offseason again, I’m opting to piggyback off of this excellent and thoughtful article from our fellow SB nation site Over the Monster. Writer Maura McGurk, a Massachusetts native who has lived in Seattle the past 10 years (so practically a local now), wanted to analyze the reasons why she has felt a surprisingly amount of open hostility from Seattle sports fans toward her Red Sox fandom.