A few days ago I introduced Game 82 by declaring it the start of the second half of the season and an otherwise good and correct Twitter friend of mine told me to go to hell:
What he is referring to, which you and I both know, is that typically the “second half” of the year means the portion of the baseball season after the All-Star break, which is coming up in a couple weeks. It is effective shorthand and I use it regularly but, as I wrote to John, I eschewed it because if you do the lineups post every day you’ll take any potential hook you can get.