Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers Play 162 Minutes Of Baseball
It's an interesting parallel between the length of this game and
the length of the regular season. This game between the Mariners
and the Rangers lasted 162 minutes. The regular season,
obviously, lasts 162 games. You could say that this game and the
season are made up of the same number of individual components,
and as is their custom in the latter, today the Mariners lost a
whole mess of them in the former. I guess the parallel falls
apart when you realize the Mariners can't actually lose minutes
any more than they can lose innings, but you get the idea. Today
the Mariners played 162 minutes against the Rangers, and they
might've won 40 or 50 of them.  It's weird writing recaps when
the outcomes don't really matter anymore. You never stop
thinking about the outcomes entirely, and you pretty much always
prefer a win to a loss, but as the losing gets deeper, and the
season gets older, the priorities change. Early on, all you care
about is winning.