Welcome back to playoff baseball, Seattle.
After two dismal decades, there’s no doubt it will be incredibly exciting to finally see the Mariners in the postseason this weekend. But it’s also a lock to be incredibly nerve-racking.
People who drag our national pastime for its monotony probably haven’t watched the sport in October, when a slog of a season is decided in a harrowing sprint riddled with a million potential missteps along the way.
Seattle fans can be forgiven for forgetting how tense playoff games are—or for never knowing, considering the franchise’s postseason drought almost turned drinking age before meeting its merciful end. Gen Z wasn’t even born when Ken Griffey
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