As the American League Divisional Series (ALDS) returns to Seattle, here is one fan’s totally biased list of the sounds that built Seattle into a baseball city.

Saturday, the ALDS returns to T-Mobile Park, and if you’re anything like me, you’ve already warned your family that you’ll be emotionally unavailable for the next week. This city’s ready for playoff baseball again after missing out in 2023 and 2024, and I mean ready in that uniquely Seattle way where we’re simultaneously confident and terrified because, well, we’re Mariners fans.

Quick primer for the uninitiated: the ALDS is the second round of the MLB playoffs, it’s best of five games, and the winner moves on to the Championship Series. The Mariners are back after a two-year absence, which felt like another eternity from the 21-

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