THE HOT CORNER - HOT STOVE OBSERVATION
It’s not hard to find observers noting that this year’s Hot Stove season is different from the recent past. Mostly, they are those who were clamoring about injustices during the 2017-2018 and the 2018-2019 offseasons. Like this. And when management steps up and proclaims that everything is all fine, is still more “hey, wait until all is said and done before you proclaim me wrong” stuff.
These guys were not granting that benefit the past two winters. Instead, the entire notion of waiting WAS their evidence that things were broken.