Astros drift into town, sweep sailors and leave

Low expectations always generate fun returns. With truly dominant teams, or repeat participants in the playoffs, victories often elicit more relief than true happiness. When your team has a brand new list of people full of projects and attacks, it's easier to approach them calmly.

"I'll be happy to win a good season, but I'm quite ready for a difficult / bad season."

None of the players on the team really think they're bad. Few professional athletes will start the season with the logical ferocity and the media to rebuild the teams. But they have internet access. These guys are familiar with television. They earn thousands of dollars a year, after all. Nobody rightly put pressure on the browsers to do anything, and the browsers understood it.

This made the beginning of 13-4 so convincing. We live in a perfect mix of amazed exaltation and legitimately impressive performances. These sailors have the attraction of a young artist who has no reason to be hot at the beginning of his career, and the skeptic anxiety fades with each new success.

If this series served as the first test of the reality of Seattle, she passed several times. Although every game in April is called an early start, being swept away by a divisional rival may have discouraged the Mariners. The team started the day with pride and a provocative spirit, as the Mariners made determined efforts in the first third of the match.

Mitch Haniger wasted no time in redefining victory, scoring his third career career goal and driving both winning odds, dinger series and team confidence. in the right direction.

After three rounds, Seattle maintained a 2-0 lead, one-two from Domingo Santana RBI scoring the second goal. By scoring six times in three assists and consolidating the successes on patients, the Mariners pushed Gerrit Cole to count the number of shots north of the 50th, although they seemed helpless in some K.

The counterpart of Cole has shown excellent efficiency. In the first phase of the match, Marco Gonzales had several outs in the first two shots. Most of the Astros hitter, if not all the batters, are terrifying, and Marco was able to neutralize his lineup by using his aggression against him. His tight knee position and low-speed repertoire alleviated contact with the Astros and prevented his frustrated return to the dugout. Gonzales' cup and shift came late and quietly, like a late high school student who was trying to avoid the watchful gaze of his teacher. The tiny southpaw even went through eight consecutive batters at one point, a sequence that ended in the sixth inning.

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Gonzales encountered his first problem of the afternoon by arranging a start march for Tony Kemp the sixth. The free pass was sent to Brandon Brennan, who was preparing a potentially messy cleanup. The Astros would immediately engage three riders, just like a ROOT Sports chart announced Michael Brantley's huge success with heavy goals. Quite right, the baby born in Bellevue launched a simple in the right field, scoring Kemp and José Altuve. Two obstruction movements disguised as withdrawal attempts followed, and Marco then gave way to Brennan.

The choice of the Rule 5 Seattle may have proved the best reliever (?) With Carlos Correa trying to change the keystroke on two strikes, briefly deflowering the rally of the Astros. He killed the batter throughout the rally later, getting a massive and missing shot with his clever speed. Yuli Gurriel's swinging swing reduced the threat to silence, and the Mariners found themselves equalizing in third place, tied for two, threatening the euro.

In this case, Houston defended our European approach and turned things around. Brennan reappeared at the top of seventh place, where he fell on Aledmys Díaz. I'll let the power of moving pictures and Jack Dorsey show you what happened next, because I'm lazy.

Saturday night, my roommate came back from a day of skiing and told me, as only a young man of 24 years without hindrance, that a stranger would stay with us tonight. My roommate explained that he met her in the mountains and was traveling between Tahoe and Canada. As he is also sitting at a colleague's place of work, my roommate offered him his bed (which will not be used because he takes care of the cat), pushing her to seize the opportunity to sleep somewhere other than in a home. Toyota Corolla. She also had a dog and PBR.

She is, and I say that as endearing as possible, what one might call a ski fanatic.

At the latest 30 minutes after hearing this information for the first time, the vagabond was in my apartment, sharing beers, smiling and dropping a dog bed in our living room. After brief interactions to make sure it was not lethal or lethal, we went to Ballard, stayed in touch with friends, and found ourselves on a Saturday. This morning, she and the dog – who was pure on all fours – woke up around 10:30. We reunited the riddles of our night together through Internet search history and food delivery receipts, then met my roommate for an overpriced brunch, because the millennials are nothing if they are not under Mark.

After about 18 hours, we learned about the existence of each one, huddled his dog, danced, praised Cardi B, found the bottom of several cans, laughed, dined, suggested a route to get to Whistler and got him say goodbye. The wanderer packed his car and left the city with the speed, accuracy and nonchalance of someone who has already done so and who will probably do so again tomorrow.

This is the type of experience that helps you get to know you. Looking into a life that you think you love to live, but are not sure, it would be so new and radical. Maybe if you're evaluating money differently, maybe you're taking more risks or trying new things, mayyybe then you could do it. But for the moment, you admire it as they continue their tour, improving at each stop and new leaf tour.

This is what watching the Mariners play the Astros is like.

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You're doing well and you like the atmosphere today. Then, someone introduces himself and injects new energy, reminding you that things can be done differently. They pass, they do their thing, they leave. The dinghies, whether it's a skier and her bulldog or the Houston Astros, have their own course that takes them where they are today. Even if it looks, feels and feels different from your life, it's their version of pleasure. And sometimes, of course, it comes at your expense ($ 30 RIP I spent for Domino with one in the morning).