This team has been declared dead many times—by me, in fact, in multiple recaps after playoff chance-destroying series—and every time they have come back, rising from the ashes, making me think of the lyrics to one of my favorite John Darnielle songs, “Going to Marrakesh”:
The fog is lifting from the water
The bells are sounding on the boats
And our love is a monster, plain and simple
Though you weigh it down with stones to try to drown it
It floats
It floatsToday the Mariners did not float.