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I was entertained by you, 2008 season. There were some fun stories: a "rebuilding" Cardinals team with some emerging talent unexpectedly competed for most of the year. The Cubs hype machine cratered just in time for the first round of the playoffs. A hugely entertaining, underdog Rays team showed the AL East that they can't just outspend everyone and win (at least for this year) and could be a contender for a long time. The Red Sox looked poised to pull off their playoffs magic act yet again, but came up just short. Pujols had another career year, in a career of them, and will get his deserved second MVP.

Yes, I liked this season. But this is a rave and a rant. Goodbye baseball. We'll see you in the spring. In the meantime, we get to debate the potential value of Jeremy Affeldt for 6 months. Oh, and there's basketball too. Sigh.

I feel kind of empty when baseball season ends, no joke.

the worst time of year is upon us

I actually love this time of year. I love hot stove baseball. I love speculating on who's going where, how the team is going to be constructed, and all that. Love hearing about it on the radio and reading about it online. In that way, baseball never ends for me.

clevername wrote:I actually love this time of year. I love hot stove baseball. I love speculating on who's going where, how the team is going to be constructed, and all that. Love hearing about it on the radio and reading about it online. In that way, baseball never ends for me.

Well then you should be pretty bored because well all know the Redbirds won't do much of anything.

yeah, but there's always the "hope".

I like it all, though. Love following all the changes on all the teams.

"The game begins in the spring when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops."

~ A. Bartlett Giamatti

See you next Feb.