It's been a bad year for my favorite team, well, really bad TBH

[The Polack MSgt]

But it's been a great year for Baseball.

The World Baseball Classic was fantastic and so was the College World Series.

Shohei Ohtani may be the best athlete in history.

The Giants, D-Backs, Reds, Rays and Rangers are all winning with moderate payrolls and young up and coming stars.

The pitch clock (which I opposed) and banning the shift (which I supported) have combined to make the game better. The games have a better pace and more action.

I travel for a living and I hear people talking baseball in places where I never really noticed it before.

I mean, I live around St Louis and we talk baseball all the time here. What's different now is I was talking baseball with folks in Charleston South Carolina and Hattiesburg Mississippi. That is not normal in my experiance.

I am really optomistic about the direction Baseball is headed.