T-Mobile Park Revealed as Severed Floor

Front Office Forgets to Prep for Season, Lose to Marlins 8-4

In a wild turn of circumstances, it was revealed in a press conference today that the Mariners' home ballpark, T-Mobile Stadium, has a severed floor. Some of you may be familiar with the severing process brought to us by the mysterious mega corporation Lumon. The subject of the process can disconnect - or "sever" - from their outside memories and history to do their job more effectively without thinking about family or outside of work matters. However, the result for the Mariners has been that the front office has failed to yet put together a team capable of winning the World Series.

Being on a severed floor, it must be that the front office simply forgot about the existence of free agency or the trade market to fill some of the holes in this team. Having no outside knowledge of the world, of course, they were able to focus on running the team better to achieve their stated goal of a 54% win percentage, but cutting off that history has also prevented them from using experience and outside knowledge to make meaningful additions in the offseason. This led to the club adding no more than Donovan Solano as a utility infielder, leaving second base between Dylan Moore, Ryan Bliss, and Leo Rivas. While this hadn't been an issue initially, the injury to Bliss had made filling the infield effectively a problem. The usually solid Dylan Moore has been asked to play a lot more now, and maybe that was what led to this error that led to a six-run inning for the Marlins.

But the reality is no individual is really to blame: it's the severance process that has to end.

For too long, people have been made to walk half in and half out of life; no one has ever bothered to look into the long-term impact of the process, and clearly, the Mariners are feeling it now. The only solution in the future is to ban the severed process and allow life to operate normally. After all, it's the experiences, the history, the pain, the love that make us all who we are. I know LL isn't the place to take a political stance, but this is important.

This November, vote no on the public legalization of the severance process.

Tragically, maybe this game goes differently with a different set of circumstances. Logan Gilbert, the team’s workhorse and best pitcher, was forced to leave the game after the first three innings with an apparent right forearm strain. Gilbert had this to say after the game:

“...You can’t control all that but I’ve been healthy and never really came out of a start. I think this is the first one when I came out (because of injury). Like I said, it’s not all about me, but.. first time, it’s kind of tough. But you know I’ve got a lot of faith. God’s got a plan. I trust in that. I think it will be alright. I think it could be a lot worse. So we’ll see what happens.”

Logan seems to believe that it’s not significant. All of us here at Lookout Landing are hoping he’s okay and can return fully healthy and continue his hot start to the season.

The Mariners were able to recover to some extent behind Casey Lawrence. Despite the rough fifth and eighth, Casey Lawrence still pitched five innings for a Mariners team whose bullpen was very short today. While he has picked up the loss, his ability to go out there and still pitch well without losing his cool after a rough inning, at least temporarily, kept the Mariners in the game, still recovering from a lengthy roadtrip where the bullpen was used heavily, without an off day between returning from the East Coast and starting this three-game set.

For a moment, the Mariners brought the game within two after a three-run home run from Jorge Polanco in the sixth inning, his fifth of the year.

But ultimately, it would not be enough. The Marlins would add two more in the eighth off of Agustin Ramirez's first career homerun, entirely putting the game to bed.

“I think we were trying to get through there as long as we could,” said Dan Wilson postgame about sending Lawrence, already at 70 pitches, back out for the eighth inning. “Casey continued to battle for us, and they were able to get to him there in that eighth.”

“But you can’t say more about the job he’s done and what Casey’s meant to us,” Wilson said about Lawrence, whom the team has leaned upon heavily with injuries and ineffectiveness to the pitching staff, shuttling him back and forth between Tacoma and the big-league club to create roster flexibility: an unglamorous job, and a night many Mariners fans might like to sever from their consciousnesses.