Maybe it was because he figured he had already done it in October, so what the heck.
So Kris Bryant, the young star of the Chicago Cubs, went swimming with sharks during the winter in Hawaii. For real. And no, their names were not Matt Harvey, Jacob deGrom and Noah Syndergaard.
A couple of months after the New York Mets took a savage chomp out of his Cubs in the National League Championship Series, it was onward, upward and westward for Bryant, who immediately began preparing for 2016 by not brooding over the way 2015 ended. As much as any other Cub, Bryant lives by manager Joe Maddon's credo of "don't ever let the pressure exceed the pleasure.