In-person Mariners games: Can you go? Will you?

Jennifer Buchanan-USA TODAY Sports This scene might be a vestige of the past this upcoming seasonThe Texas Rangers surprised the baseball world the other day when they announced, pursuant to Governor Abbott’s total re-opening of Texas, that Globe Life Field would be operating at 100% capacity starting from Opening Day. Texas currently ranks 24th in the nation for the most COVID cases, well above Washington (which has the fifth-lowest numbers of COVID per capita in the nation), but the Mariners have announced no such plans to open the ballpark to any fans.

That doesn’t mean there isn’t a plan in place, though, as Ryan Divish reports in the Seattle Times. According to team owner John Stanton,…