When I’ve been waiting a long while for something and it’s finally settled, I usually look over to my wife and she knows what’s coming. A line from Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, when Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee have done the impossible, destroying the One Ring in the fiery chasm whence it came.
“It’s finished. It’s done.”
So I was pretty disheartened that I got the news Wednesday morning about Kris Bryant losing his service time grievance while A) I was at the office and B) she was out of town at a trade show and not able to text.