No Baseball? No Problem.
- Mar 27, 2018
- 2 min read
Baseball is the world’s greatest antidote.
Every year, from April to October, you know that you can rely on baseball every day to provide a three-hour escape from the daily grind. Like the post-work beer, America’s Pastime beckons in its welcoming comfort, ready to release you from the rest of your stresses. Beautiful in its rhythmic repetition, baseball’s best benefit is often found in its methodic frequency: with each team playing 162 games a year, a fan leans on baseball for stability amidst the prevailing unpredictability that plagues the rest of his or her life. Baseball improves mental health: a ballgame a day keeps the doctor away.
But what about off-days? What happens when you return from a hard day at work and open the fridge to find the 6-pack unexpectedly empty? Chaos. You have lost your supply; normality is thrown out the window, and everything is out of whack. Like addicts stripped of their needed dopamine, we do not know how to cope without our daily dose of baseball.
Mariner fans, that is where we come in.
Welcome back to another year of the Mariner Muse: your (off)-daily source of mentally stimulating baseball commentary. On every Mariner off-day, we provide you with some new food for thought to help you pass the time that our pastime normally would. With a focus on long-form content written in creative prose, our articles explore the many beauties of baseball in general and the intricacies of the Seattle Mariners as a team. A new slice of perspective on one of baseball’s many brilliant elements, a unique bit of analysis on the Seattle franchise as a whole, a weekly “where are they now?” Mariner to explore. If you consider yourself a baseball fan at all, this is for you.
Register for our free mailing list to have the Mariner Muse newsletter delivered to your inbox on an (off)-daily basis – or simply follow us on Twitter, join the conversation, request a topic for future exploration, and begin to recapture a bit of what you miss on a day when the Ners don’t play.
No baseball? No problem.
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