On smartphone cameras, the Seattle Mariners, and disappointment
There’s the smell of sizzling sausage, car exhaust, and late-season playoff hopes in the air on Tuesday night as I cross the street toward the stadium. I’m carrying a neon green Mariners fanny pack across my chest (that’s how the kids are wearing them, right?!?) loaded with the essentials: my ID, Kleenex, a Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra, and an iPhone 14 Pro. The roof of T-Mobile Park hangs open over the adjacent railway, looming like the Death Star, and I head toward an entrance with a few things on my agenda, in no particular order:
- Cheer on the Mariners as they
definitelyhopefullyplease dear god end a 20-year playoff drought (Editor’s Note: They did, in fact, end the drought last night) - Collect the Mariners-branded flannel shirt my...