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I sense this is what many of you are dealing with this morning. How do you handle a聽?

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Do you sink into a funk? Do you open a bag of chips and eat the whole thing including the chip dust at the bottom? Are you mean to the cat? Do you tailgate small cars in frustration?

I hope not, because none of these behaviors are healthy.

On the post-game show, they were going through the what-ifs, and among the big questions was: why didn鈥檛 Robby Ray throw the slider on that last pitch? It was another 鈥渨hy didn鈥檛 the Seahawks run the ball鈥� moment.

Pretty soon I too was asking myself 鈥渨hy didn鈥檛 Robby Ray throw the slider?鈥� And I鈥檓 not even sure what a slider is. Apparently, it鈥檚 a pitch that always wins games.

But let鈥檚 think this through.

If there is any characteristic that should define an all-in Mariners fan, it鈥檚 knowing how to accept a loss 鈥� because we鈥檝e had 21 years of practice.

But the other thing I think about is how watching a loss unfold can help us deal with our own defeats.

Because in no sport are individual mistakes as visible or as ruthlessly punished as in baseball.

In football your mistakes are typically forced on you by the other team 鈥� somebody鈥檚 always running after you, purposely trying to mess things up. But in baseball, you mess up alone. You miss the bad hop. You drop the ball. You strike out looking. You throw the wrong pitch.

Pitchers are held personally responsible for every run they allow. Fielding mistakes are labeled 鈥渆rrors鈥� and go on your permanent record.

The most famous poem about baseball 鈥� 鈥淐asey at the Bat鈥� 鈥� is about the slugger who choked.

It鈥檚 like the workplace!

You can find yourself in trouble at any moment just for doing your job.

So, when the Mariners lose, I can console myself by thinking 鈥� you know, compared to that 鈥� my work day wasn鈥檛 so bad!

And the other takeaway is this. The Mariners were certainly down after losing 鈥� the post-game interviews sounded like everybody鈥檚 dog had just died 鈥� but I didn鈥檛 hear a single quiet quitter in that locker room. And I know that despite having a bad day, it鈥檚 their job to put that bad day behind them, trust their skills, get some rest, and throw themselves at it again.

An excellent example for us all.

Listen to Seattle鈥檚 Morning News with Dave Ross and Colleen O鈥橞rien weekday mornings from 5 鈥� 9 a.m. on 成人X站 Newsradio, 97.3 FM. Subscribe to the聽podcast here.