This season has been — in one word — disappointing. The Mariners entered the season amidst controversy regarding their playoff hopes and questions as to whether they should even be going for a winning season in an American League that looked unwinnable. They came out, and they played well, and they “silenced the haters.” For two or three months. And then they collapsed.
It’s interesting to compare a season like this to, say, 2012. The Mariners absolutely sucked in 2012. They had — checks notes — exactly nothing going for them. Yet, because I like baseball and because I like the Mariners, I watched most of their games through the entire disappointing season.