I woke up on Tuesday morning, May 11th, to a million push notifications. Funny, I thought. I thought the Mariners had an off night last night? I swiped them aside and toddled downstairs ready to watch my usual breakfast baseball.
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Author: Bamos Appleby
Let’s get tipsy: Reflections on the Mariners opening series of 2021
There’s a magnificent James Acaster routine (I mean, all James Acaster routines are magnificent, but there’s a particular one that is relevant here) about drinking that I was thinking about over opening weekend. “There are four things you can be
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Why James Paxton is the perfect piece for the Seattle Mariners process
I like to give my wife intermittent updates on the state of the Seattle Mariners. I don’t know if she likes hearing them, but I figure it’s nice for her to know what I’m focusing my attention on instead of
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What a double-play tells us about the 2020 Seattle Mariners
So, we’re just over a week in to a baseball season that may not finish. Seattle Mariners Pitcher A has shown some “good stuff”, Hitter B has struck out more than his previous stats might suggest, and Outfielder C has
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A Friday night in July with the Seattle Mariners
If things were normal, I wouldn’t be watching a game tonight. If things were normal, the Seattle Mariners would be lining up to play the second of a four-game series against the A’s, two games from the end of 10-game
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An Ode To Mike Zunino
It’s hard to write about baseball when there’s no baseball happening. I’ve spent at least two hours today trying to think about how to make the fact the 2020 Seattle Mariners sent some players you’ve never heard of back down
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Seattle Mariners 2020: the race to the bottom never felt so good
So close. So, SO damn close. A mere 3.1 games away from the kind of magnificent, glorious, ignominy I revel in as someone who pays a lot more attention to the Seattle Mariners than any sane UK resident should. The
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