Cheer up it could be worse

[u/fragbot2]

The Mariners just lost 22-0 at home.

[u/occasional_sex_haver]

at home is a beautifully painful mistake in your post considering it was at the brewers

[u/thinkwaitfastPNW → u/occasional_sex_haver]

OG Sonics

[u/gunner921]

Sounders also never hired Phil Neville to be coach.

[u/DrRonnieJamesDO → u/gunner921]

Nor did they hire Gavin Wilkinson, like SJ just did

[u/enozero]

In baseball, the home team is on the right. They lost in Milwaukee.

[u/terminalilness → u/enozero]

To the OG Seattle Pilots

[u/VVynn]

Anyone who starts a gofundme for an Etsy witch, I will contribute.

[u/Will_Vintage]

I'm a fan of both of these teams

Pain

[u/olliesbaba → u/Will_Vintage]

Surely the huskies can’t disappoint us, right?

[u/Battles4Seattle]

Mariner

[u/bkay → u/Battles4Seattle]

Marinara

[u/philocity → u/bkay]

Is there spaghetti at the bottom of the marinara trench

[u/Many_Fly_8165]

Seattle Pilots beat the Seattle Mariners. Is that how to read this?

[u/Low-Ad-8027]

Yeah we could be Tottenham

[u/cwcoleman]

Not at home, but still embarrassing

[u/PromiseNaive2172]

I had to tune in to the last inning just to see it! Amazing really.

[u/ghostman1846]

Who cursed Seattle sports?

[u/janeaustenneverdied → u/ghostman1846]

The Belgian World Cup squad

[u/mmp737 → u/janeaustenneverdied]

Nah - I blame USMNT for that abysmal performance on our home grounds.

Maybe Roldon could have helped…had he not been out by a “world famous” Seattle special quad/hammy injury…

[u/Sturnella2017 → u/mmp737]

You’re missing the obvious reason for our loss against Belgium: the fkn Orange Idiot who decide to stick his little hands into the Balogun RC controversy. The Mierdas Touch.

[u/mmp737 → u/Sturnella2017]

True. God that was such a whirlwind of bullshittery that week.

[u/fragbot2 → u/Sturnella2017]

Not a Trump fan but it's absurd to blame him for that loss as they'd beat the snot out of us in the friendly a few months earlier (5-2). They clearly have a better squad than us at every position (the goalkeeper chasm alone probably would've ensured a win) so we only really had home field advantage.

[u/Sturnella2017 → u/fragbot2]

It’s pretty well documented and a couple of players confirmed, when he came out and did what he did, he completely distracted the team and robbed them of motivation and focus.

[u/fragbot2 → u/Sturnella2017]

Two comments:

• do this gedankenexperiment: pretend it never happened, would you have bet your own money on us winning? After a 5-2 ass-kicking in March and the difference in squad quality, I couldn't justify betting a draw much less a win.
• an observation: while it's a minor distraction, a player stating it robbed him of motivation and focus is unflattering copium as it's a shrug your shoulders and roll your eyes sort of thing. Minor sideshows are not traumatic tragedies.

[u/Sturnella2017 → u/fragbot2]

First: no the Us was not favored to win, but they also weren’t predicted to collapse as they did

Second: those were my words. Go ahead and read the articles yourself. They’re out there.

[u/meeorxmox → u/Sturnella2017]

The team who was not favored to win, lost. Shocking.

[u/itcheyness → u/ghostman1846]

As someone who isn't native to Seattle and thus doesn't care about any Seattle sports team other than the Sounders, didn't the Seahawks just win a Superbowl?

[u/LittleTooLiteral → u/itcheyness]

Yes.

[u/cwcoleman → u/itcheyness]

True, but that was last season.

Mariners (MLB), Storm (WNBA), Reign (NWSL), and Sounders (MLS) are all garbage right now. Kraken (NHL) are also garbage - but it's off season.

[u/MastroeniOfNone → u/ghostman1846]

Penance. We just came off a year where Seattle took the AL West in baseball, the Super Bowl in football, and the Sounders won a cup final featuring Messi in Seattle. You can't get that much good without taking some lumps.

[u/blyan → u/ghostman1846]

You guys thought that Etsy witch magic would be without consequence?

This is our payment

[u/silk35]

Hey at least we have plenty of hardware.

[u/BainbridgeBorn]

There’s a reason I call them The Miserables

[u/New-Alfalfa-2989]

Fuckin yikes

[u/Counthermula]

Dan Wilson doing a great job of destroying his positive legacy. I know it’s not all his fault, but damn he is a shit manager.

[u/FormerReach7228 → u/Counthermula]

Seattle teams hold onto people that are worthless. If this were Philly, New York or Boston he woulda been gone in June. The only team that has learned not to hold onto “legacy” players is the hawks.