Because you probably forgot to ask, here’s a quick look backward, forward and sideways at Major League Baseball in this, the first of 22 consecutive weeks in which no one will throw a pitch of real import, unless of course it leads to Tommy John surgery.
Many a World Series has ended with the national audience second guessing somebody’s manager, but far fewer have ended with a manager second guessing himself.
So a big way-to-go to one-time Pirates coach Terry Collins, who said flatly that he was at fault for letting Mets pain-in the-ace Matt Harvey talk him into pitching the ninth inning of Game 5, in which the very-soon-to-be-world champion Kansas City Royals started a two-run rally that turned into an extra-inning rout in the clincher.