Thursday morning, the Lookout Landing staff slack channel came alive when Mitch Haniger posted his Players’ Tribune piece that was the embodiment of the “triumph” emoji.
Go ahead and read it if you haven’t yet. I’ll wait.
My initial reaction as a life-long Mariners fan was, “Oooh that’s a bold move there, Mitch, I dunno ‘bout all that.” Pessimism and lived-experience dies hard as a safety mechanism for not getting your hopes dashed. But, the more I read and the more I thought about it, I really came to appreciate Mitch for his honesty, vulnerability, and willingness to make that very bold statement.