Does it feel different to you this time around? It feels different to me this time around.
Maybe it’s the fact that, for the first time in four years, there will be no labor clouds wafting above the PFP drills and the live batting practice. Maybe it’s because we’ve had our diversions both good — Giants, Rangers, Devils — and not-so-good — hello, Brooklyn Nets — so the gap between final curtain and first stretching drill seems a bit shorter.
— and a scrapbook stuffed with memorable moments and momentous memories, so many full ballparks, so many loud days and nights, so much anticipation in October …Wanting in The Bronx. A year ago at this time, players and owners were griping at each other and sniping at each other and despite the prevailing opinion that nobody would willingly light fire to a whole season there were moments it felt that way. If you are a Yankees fan, the magnificence of Judge’s brilliance was always shadowed by the uncertainty of his future, a tedious toll road despite the happy ending.
The reason for that is obvious, and the same reason why baseball on TV annually gets beaten up in the ratings: Baseball, like politics, is local, local, local. It’s all good to see Pete Alonso swat homers for the red, white and blue; it pales to watching him do the same for the orange and blue. That’s just the way it is. The way it will always be.
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