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The world does seem to be a little bit shinier, a little bit brighter when the Mariners go on a little win streak like they have over the course of the last week.

They extend that streak to now six games. How about that? How about it? The run is here. The run we've been just sort of waiting on. I made the blackjack comp yesterday.

And I really been thinking more about it last night. And I love blackjack. I love to go to Vegas. My buddies. I love to go to Squamie Casino. I just, I like to play blackjack.

I would play it for no, like, I don't need the bedding element of it. I just like playing blackjack. I like the numbers and seeing what comes out next.

I love trying to find out what would have happened if the man playing a woman playing third base, hadn't hit or had hit and how would it change the table. And if the cards come out differently, I just, I love the game. I just, I think it's a fascinating, not like it's just something about it appeals to the way my brain works.

But if you play blackjack, you know, like, you got to keep that bed low when you're treading water or losing. And you just sort of try to tread for as long as possible until that big moment comes.

And when the big moment comes, you get an opportunity to split three times in one hand and double one of them, right. You split eights against the six. And then you get a three and you doubled your 11. And then you get another and then you split it. Right. Those hands.

When you get a chance to go all in or when you've won two, three, four hands in a row and you start increasing your bed each time and all of a sudden, instead of $10 on the table, you've got 50. And then you got a double or then you got to split those are the moments that make your entire night.

Right. That's the moment that determines whether or not you go home with money in your pocket more than you showed up with or whether you go crawling back up to your hotel room sad knowing that you just wasted your entire night.

Those are the moments, right. And I've been in both of those situations, tragically, the latter more than the former, but such as life.

The Mariners are in that moment right now where they're on their streak. They've got their double hand. They've got their split. Whatever blackjack analogy you want to put to it. And I'm sure people who play other games could come up with another analogy for it as well. But that's the one that just sort of appeals to me and the game that I've played for a long time. I got to tell you, this is good baseball.

This is the way it's supposed to be played. And I realized last night, and I don't know if there anybody else has come to this realization or thought about it at all that there was a time, not very long ago, when a zero, zero game in the fifth inning felt like it was going to end the wrong way.

Oh, yes. Right. You know, you know what I'm talking about. You're watching the game. You've squandered an opportunity in the first. Julio gets thrown out at second trying to steal.

Suarez strikes out and you're just like, oh, this thing's over. That was their chance. And I don't know about you. Maybe you didn't feel this way. Maybe it's just that, you know, halo effect of the last five wins.

But I'm watching that game last night was undaunted. Was absolutely confident that they were going to find a way to win that game. It honestly never really even dawned on me that they might lose it.

Yeah. Some of the same feelings you had last year.

Yep. And I, and you can see that those same feelings are permeating their clubhouse. It's crazy. They made this deal at the deadline. Only one deal. I mean, I guess they moved on from Pollock and Wong, but the big deal to bring in

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