Every year, baseball fans around the country and the world eagerly wait for April, for April portends the start of the Major League Baseball regular season. For long, long months, there is mostly silence punctuated by pockets of news. It is worse for fans of the 22 teams that don’t make it into the playoff proper, as those fans must wait even longer until April.
And yet, every year without fail, we get to September and I rub my eyes and groan, “wait, the season is almost over already?” I do this as if we hadn’t slogged through 150 baseball contests over a course of five months.