Baseball is back, at last. And for its own sake, just in time.
So get out the bats, balls and gloves, and put away all of those soul-sucking, annoying topics that threatened to suffocate our fandom during the owners’ 99-day lockout of the players, which ended with a new labor deal Thursday.
No more talk, please, about the competitive balance tax, or “billionaires vs. millionaires,’’ or that particularly insufferable subject that goes by the name of Rob Manfred.
Actually, wait. One last thing about the commissioner and how all of this played out before we move on to some actual, so-very-welcome chatter about the Red Sox.