Mariners fans abandon ship after historic 22-0 loss

• Sometimes pretending the Mariners don't exist is a reasonable coping strategy.

State of play: "Tear this whole place down," posted user HazePNW, along with a meme of a grizzled fisherman and the instruction: "Please remove the baseball posts, this is a real mariner sub."

• Another fan sought help compiling the Top 50 Mariners of All Time, suggesting Magellan, Leif Erikson and Francis Drake as obvious contenders.
• Others began posting about the Jones Act, ferry systems, container ships, knots, and photos of famous shipwrecks and doomed vessels — including the Edmund Fitzgerald and the OceanGate Titan submersible.
• "Don't know why everyone's posting about boats when we clearly sink," said user Electrical-Fix7659

Zoom in: The disaster of a game included an overthrow, a dropped ball, some 38 mph pitches and Julio Rodríguez tossing a sacrifice fly into the stands with only two outs — before infielder Leo Rivas finished off a nine-run eighth inning.

The bottom line: Somewhere before 22-0, baseball season ends and boating season begins.