There is no tomorrow for the 2025 Seattle Mariners. There is only the rest of fall and all of winter between them and spring training and the promise of a fresh start in 2026. It's a lot of time for thinking, yet only one question will be front and center.
Did it have to end that way?
The only indisputable truth is that it did end that way. The Mariners made it to Game 7 of the American League Championship Series, marking the closest they had ever gotten to the World Series since the franchise's birth in 1977.