Mariners take your expectations, fly them to Wisconsin, drown them in laughter

Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty ImagesLife has a way of teaching you things, of putting thoughts in your head that you stand by, that you fully believe, that you’re confident are right and could never possibly be wrong.

I used to think Macklemore was cool.

I once thought college basketball was more entertaining than the NBA.

There was even a period of my life when I would regularly make gigantic pots of pasta, eat some of said pasta, and then the next day take the leftover pasta, wrap it in a tortilla, and grill it in a panini press. This was before I fully understood how carbs worked.

As it is want to do, baseball can imitate life in a similar fashion. Just when you think you have a pretty good…