The fact that the 2018 Mariners have been presented with any number of valid reasons to be thrown off track, yet keep thundering forward, is threatening to upset the doomsday narrative.
It’s become an annual ritual to predict, in advance, how and why and sometimes even when the Mariners’ season was going to fall apart — which shortcoming would be the one to derail them this time.
That there would be an eventual derailment has been considered inevitable. Only the means of the crash, and the depth of the resulting pain, remained a fluid subject.
The fact that the 2018 Mariners have been presented with any number of valid reasons to be thrown off track, yet keep thundering forward, is threatening to upset this narrative.