"I mean, it's not linear."
This was the final week of February. In Bradenton. Ben Cherington and I were standing out in right field, having a good back-and-forth on the future of the Pittsburgh Baseball Club. And the subject at hand, as it often is on this side of the conversation, was the immediate future.
As in, what constitutes meaningful progress in 2022?
And what's above was the man's answer, as only he could accommodate without so much as cursory access to his own C-drive.
In the moment, I had to think about it.