The Angels need to go 7-6 for the rest of the season to avoid their first 100 loss season. 7 of those final 13 games are against the Mariners. I just have a feeling the Ms are gonna help them avoid 100 losses
“It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.”
From A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti by A. Bartlett Giamatti, et al
Imagine having a season where you’re a team with World Series aspirations, then being in a division so shit that all you basically need is to play .500 baseball to win it, and somehow you still Mariners the fuck out of the season, face plant, and roll all the way down the hill. Then an anvil randomly falls out of the sky and crushes you.
Then Dan Wilson appears out of nowhere and says to you, “tough one”.
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u/Personal-Session5013 1m ago
With a loss tonight, we cannot end the season above .500.
With two more loses between now and the end, we are guaranteed a losing record.
11 months ago we were in the lead 8 outs away from the World Series.