Storey Clayton
@storeyclayton.bsky.social
Just got here and it really looks just like Twitter. I like Mariners baseball, my son Graham, and trying to improve the world. Not necessarily in that order.
Nothing is so cold as an American office in summer.
June 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Nothing is so cold as an American office in summer.
Making the win yesterday even more improbable, it was the Mariners’ 3rd win in 18 games when they didn’t hit a homer. Maybe because Cal Raleigh got a true off-day. The M’s are 30-16 (.652) when they leave the yard at least once. #TridentsUp
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Mariners 3, Los Angeles (AL) 2 (33-31)
What a difference a week makes! Or even a day: 24 hours ago, I was mentally drafting a post on that phase of the season (inevitable in Mariner fandom) where even the most diehard fan feels a need to d...
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June 9, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Making the win yesterday even more improbable, it was the Mariners’ 3rd win in 18 games when they didn’t hit a homer. Maybe because Cal Raleigh got a true off-day. The M’s are 30-16 (.652) when they leave the yard at least once. #TridentsUp
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The most satisfying game of the year? Almost certainly. Thank you JP Crawford! #TridentsUp
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Mariners 5, Twins 4 [11] (31-26)
Everyone has their own favorite flavor of game. Some like the laughers. Some love the pitching duels (those are way up there for me, to be clear, 1-0 being perhaps my favorite score when it doesn't co...
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June 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The most satisfying game of the year? Almost certainly. Thank you JP Crawford! #TridentsUp
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This game was a tragedy. It's easy to focus on Woo's 3-base, ultimately 2-run error. But the bottom line is this: the
@mariners.com are 29-13 when they score at least two (2) runs. Not 3, not 4, not 5. TWO RUNS. That's a .690 clip or 112 wins. #TridentsUp
@mariners.com are 29-13 when they score at least two (2) runs. Not 3, not 4, not 5. TWO RUNS. That's a .690 clip or 112 wins. #TridentsUp
Houston 2, Seattle 1 (29-22)
This one stings. The Mariners' streak of 7 straight road series wins ended yesterday in brutal fashion, during a Bryan Woo start in which the M's surrendered no earned runs and no runs at all after th...
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May 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
This game was a tragedy. It's easy to focus on Woo's 3-base, ultimately 2-run error. But the bottom line is this: the
@mariners.com are 29-13 when they score at least two (2) runs. Not 3, not 4, not 5. TWO RUNS. That's a .690 clip or 112 wins. #TridentsUp
@mariners.com are 29-13 when they score at least two (2) runs. Not 3, not 4, not 5. TWO RUNS. That's a .690 clip or 112 wins. #TridentsUp
Dan Wilson will get more effective at managing the staff and the bullpen, but the hitters aren’t going to forget how to stay within themselves and deliver what the moment needs. It’s weird to see in blue, silver, and teal, but oh so welcome.
#TridentsUp
#TridentsUp
Seattle 5, Sacramento 3 (21-14)
I really wanted to write about each piece of the Texas series, especially the two epic wins that brought the Mariners to 20-12 and made us feel invincible, riding a 6-game winning streak, 8-series win...
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May 7, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Dan Wilson will get more effective at managing the staff and the bullpen, but the hitters aren’t going to forget how to stay within themselves and deliver what the moment needs. It’s weird to see in blue, silver, and teal, but oh so welcome.
#TridentsUp
#TridentsUp
The @mariners.com are off to their hottest start since 2003, a year they finished with 93 wins.
#TridentsUp
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#TridentsUp
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Seattle 9, Los Angeles (AL) 3 (18-12)
Let's first note that I'm writing this on May 2nd about a game that ended before night fully fell on April 30. I will pull strongly from feelings on both days. But let's start by focusing on the setti...
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May 2, 2025 at 11:08 AM
The @mariners.com are off to their hottest start since 2003, a year they finished with 93 wins.
#TridentsUp
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#TridentsUp
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"Look, it’s early. This is usually a sentence written about the Mariners to justify another slow start. We are about to end April in first place, something that essentially doesn’t compute for the Seattle fan’s brain."
#TridentsUp
#TridentsUp
Seattle 5, Los Angeles (AL) 3 (17-12)
It doesn't feel quite like 2001 yet, but I can start to see a passing resemblance. I think one of the coolest things to witness as a sports fan is someone being so deep in the zone that they even surp...
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April 30, 2025 at 11:06 AM
"Look, it’s early. This is usually a sentence written about the Mariners to justify another slow start. We are about to end April in first place, something that essentially doesn’t compute for the Seattle fan’s brain."
#TridentsUp
#TridentsUp
Who could have possibly predicted that the Mariner offense would be good, actually?
Well, um, I did. On Twitter. This offseason.
#TridentsUp
Well, um, I did. On Twitter. This offseason.
#TridentsUp
Seattle 14, Miami 0 (15-12)
Ahem. Look, I'm not necessarily one to, er, tweet my own horn, but I have to call attention to two tweets (Xes?) I made regarding the Mariners over the off-season that seem to be manifesting as at lea...
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April 27, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Who could have possibly predicted that the Mariner offense would be good, actually?
Well, um, I did. On Twitter. This offseason.
#TridentsUp
Well, um, I did. On Twitter. This offseason.
#TridentsUp
JP Crawford has 4 multi-hit games in his last 6 and just hit his first HR in game 24, just like he did in his 19-HR 2023 campaign.
#TridentsUp
#TridentsUp
Seattle 8, Boston 5 (13-11)
Now that, by contrast, was fun! Your Seattle Mariners have won 3 of their last 4 games by scoring exactly 8 runs. Eight runs! This is an incredible, well, run, and demonstrates that with a few hitters...
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April 24, 2025 at 10:02 AM
JP Crawford has 4 multi-hit games in his last 6 and just hit his first HR in game 24, just like he did in his 19-HR 2023 campaign.
#TridentsUp
#TridentsUp
Maybe Julio's problem (to the extent he has one) is just that he's leading off?
My campaign is for this lineup:
1 Moore 4
2 Polanco 0
3 Julio 8
4 Cal 2
5 Randy 7
6 Raley 9
7 Williamson 5
8 Tellez 3
9 JP 6
#TridentsUp
My campaign is for this lineup:
1 Moore 4
2 Polanco 0
3 Julio 8
4 Cal 2
5 Randy 7
6 Raley 9
7 Williamson 5
8 Tellez 3
9 JP 6
#TridentsUp
Boston 8, Seattle 3 (12-11)
Well that was no fun. Is this how Blue Jay fans felt over the weekend? Yuck. This was a close and competitive game. And then it wasn't. Polanco hit a big fly to open things up after Leadoff Julio (som...
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April 23, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Maybe Julio's problem (to the extent he has one) is just that he's leading off?
My campaign is for this lineup:
1 Moore 4
2 Polanco 0
3 Julio 8
4 Cal 2
5 Randy 7
6 Raley 9
7 Williamson 5
8 Tellez 3
9 JP 6
#TridentsUp
My campaign is for this lineup:
1 Moore 4
2 Polanco 0
3 Julio 8
4 Cal 2
5 Randy 7
6 Raley 9
7 Williamson 5
8 Tellez 3
9 JP 6
#TridentsUp
In a series of utter improbabilities, Rowdy Tellez going deep thrice probably takes the cake. But Cal, Randy, and Logan are all at or near the top of the league in key categories. More importantly, the M's are nearly atop the AL West!
#TridentsUp
#TridentsUp
Seattle 8, Toronto 3 (12-10)
It's hard to imagine two more disparate games with such similar scores as the last two wins for the M's in Toronto, 8-4 in 12 yesterday and 8-3 in 9 today. The former was hard-scrabble, back-and-forth...
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April 21, 2025 at 5:08 AM
In a series of utter improbabilities, Rowdy Tellez going deep thrice probably takes the cake. But Cal, Randy, and Logan are all at or near the top of the league in key categories. More importantly, the M's are nearly atop the AL West!
#TridentsUp
#TridentsUp
M's are 6-1 in their last 7:
JP's hitting .364 with an OBP of .481 and an OPS of .936.
Cal's hitting .233 with an OBP of .303, an OPS of 1.170 and 6 HR.
Randy's hitting .318 with an OBP of .531, an OPS of 1.259, 5 SB, and 7 bases loaded RBI.
#TridentsUp
JP's hitting .364 with an OBP of .481 and an OPS of .936.
Cal's hitting .233 with an OBP of .303, an OPS of 1.170 and 6 HR.
Randy's hitting .318 with an OBP of .531, an OPS of 1.259, 5 SB, and 7 bases loaded RBI.
#TridentsUp
Seattle 11, Cincinnati 7 [10] (10-9)
This one was wild. I've been less engaged with the M's on this trip home in my haste to help my mother move out of her home of 26 years: interviewing realtors, trying to match paint lids, shlepping bo...
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April 18, 2025 at 6:03 AM
M's are 6-1 in their last 7:
JP's hitting .364 with an OBP of .481 and an OPS of .936.
Cal's hitting .233 with an OBP of .303, an OPS of 1.170 and 6 HR.
Randy's hitting .318 with an OBP of .531, an OPS of 1.259, 5 SB, and 7 bases loaded RBI.
#TridentsUp
JP's hitting .364 with an OBP of .481 and an OPS of .936.
Cal's hitting .233 with an OBP of .303, an OPS of 1.170 and 6 HR.
Randy's hitting .318 with an OBP of .531, an OPS of 1.259, 5 SB, and 7 bases loaded RBI.
#TridentsUp
Julio has already increased his number of career triples by 40% this year. You can't tell me he isn't taking a different - and better - approach at the plate. #TridentsUp
Seattle 9, Texas 2 (7-8)
It's good to have a laugher. It's great to have a laugher that got off to such a terrible start. Bryan Woo got into an old-fashioned jam in the first, a combination of mediocre pitching and bad luck w...
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April 13, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Julio has already increased his number of career triples by 40% this year. You can't tell me he isn't taking a different - and better - approach at the plate. #TridentsUp
The two best games of the year have come back-to-back. Is this a portend of good things to come? Or just something we should savor for its own sake?
#TridentsUp
#TridentsUp
Seattle 5, Texas 3 (6-8)
The last two games have been some of the most satisfying in recent memory for the Mariners, well beyond just the best of this season. And they've come with some extra-special personal notes for me as ...
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April 12, 2025 at 5:20 AM
The two best games of the year have come back-to-back. Is this a portend of good things to come? Or just something we should savor for its own sake?
#TridentsUp
#TridentsUp
In baseball, the odds of scoring a run with a runner on second and no outs are 62%.
The Mariners just failed to do it in 3 straight innings.
The odds of that are about 5.5%.
#TridentsUp
The Mariners just failed to do it in 3 straight innings.
The odds of that are about 5.5%.
#TridentsUp
Houston 2, Seattle 1 [12] (4-8)
In baseball, the odds of scoring a run with a runner on second and no outs are 62%. The Mariners just failed to do it in 3 straight innings. The odds of that are about 5.5%. Coincidentally, they were ...
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April 9, 2025 at 5:31 AM
In baseball, the odds of scoring a run with a runner on second and no outs are 62%.
The Mariners just failed to do it in 3 straight innings.
The odds of that are about 5.5%.
#TridentsUp
The Mariners just failed to do it in 3 straight innings.
The odds of that are about 5.5%.
#TridentsUp
5 Requests of Dan Wilson after today's stellar win:
1. Stop Batting Julio Leadoff.
2. Start Batting Dylan Moore Leadoff.
3. Bench/DFA Rowdy Tellez.
4. Keep Stealing!
5. Free Dom Canzone!
#TridentsUp
1. Stop Batting Julio Leadoff.
2. Start Batting Dylan Moore Leadoff.
3. Bench/DFA Rowdy Tellez.
4. Keep Stealing!
5. Free Dom Canzone!
#TridentsUp
Seattle 4, Houston 3 (4-7)
It's hard to understand how badly you need a win until you get one. This principle probably applies to a lot more than baseball, but I'm here to talk about baseball because baseball is a beautiful spo...
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April 8, 2025 at 5:42 AM
5 Requests of Dan Wilson after today's stellar win:
1. Stop Batting Julio Leadoff.
2. Start Batting Dylan Moore Leadoff.
3. Bench/DFA Rowdy Tellez.
4. Keep Stealing!
5. Free Dom Canzone!
#TridentsUp
1. Stop Batting Julio Leadoff.
2. Start Batting Dylan Moore Leadoff.
3. Bench/DFA Rowdy Tellez.
4. Keep Stealing!
5. Free Dom Canzone!
#TridentsUp
Without veteran leadership, it's looking like a suddenly long season for the Mariners. Can we sign JD Martinez, please?
#TridentsUp
#TridentsUp
San Francisco 4, Seattle 1 (3-6)
This is supposed to be the Fun Differential era. But this is no fun. I caught a fair bit of heat - and also got a lot of credit (498 likes to date against 80 comments, most of them vitriolically negat...
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April 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Without veteran leadership, it's looking like a suddenly long season for the Mariners. Can we sign JD Martinez, please?
#TridentsUp
#TridentsUp
Hitting is bad. Lefties are bad. Vibes are bad. Help!
#TridentsUp
#TridentsUp
Detroit 4, Seattle 1 (2-4)
I'm not going to sugarcoat it. That was awful and is an ominous sign for our season. As an incorrigible optimist about the Mariners and especially the genuine potential of the Fun Differential era of ...
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April 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Hitting is bad. Lefties are bad. Vibes are bad. Help!
#TridentsUp
#TridentsUp
Fun fact: Since the start of 2021, the Mariners have a .573 winning percentage in T-Mobile and have outscored their opponents by 95 runs. #TridentsUp
Seattle 2, Sacramento 1 (2-2)
It's increasingly funny to me that I opened the year with a post about dismissing past narratives. Because all we've really got are past narratives. Which one do you want? One-Run Magic? Julio the Sav...
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March 31, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Fun fact: Since the start of 2021, the Mariners have a .573 winning percentage in T-Mobile and have outscored their opponents by 95 runs. #TridentsUp
Not only was it hard to write a recap for Game 3, it was hard to remember why I like baseball during the game itself. #TridentsUp
Sacramento 4, Seattle 2 (1-2)
I don't want to dwell on this one. This was about as frustrating as a night of baseball can get. Some nights, your team gets blown out (last night). Some nights, your team gets shut out (last night). ...
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March 30, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Not only was it hard to write a recap for Game 3, it was hard to remember why I like baseball during the game itself. #TridentsUp
Game 2 Recap. #TridentsUp
Sacramento 7, Seattle 0 (1-1)
You gotta score a run. It's a simple, painfully obvious principle, but one that I return to frequently while watching this incarnation of the Seattle Mariners. By "this incarnation," I mean the 2020s ...
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March 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Game 2 Recap. #TridentsUp
Everybody likes content. And I don't have the energy or desire to live-tweet Mariner games. But I can write and reflect. So here is my first recap of 2025. Not promising to do these every game, but if y'all like 'em, I'll see what I can do! #TridentsUp
Seattle 4, Sacramento 2 (1-0)
Randy Arozarena watches if fly. Photo credit: The Seattle Times Baseball is a game of narratives. It's what we love about it, the storytelling, the slowly built drama that rises and falls over 2-3 hou...
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March 28, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Everybody likes content. And I don't have the energy or desire to live-tweet Mariner games. But I can write and reflect. So here is my first recap of 2025. Not promising to do these every game, but if y'all like 'em, I'll see what I can do! #TridentsUp