Hope can be among the most beautiful of feelings. It’s the feeling of seeing, for the first time, little sprouts of soft green growth on the trees in spring. It’s the feeling of waking up one day and realizing, after a long winter, that there’s already blue skies and a bright sun warming the pavement. It’s the feeling of your newly-adopted cat finally warming up to you and choosing to nap on your chest.
Hope is also the feeling of having the best farm system in baseball, anchored by a pair of generationally-talented outfielders that are the perfect yin to each other’s yang, dynamic and charismatic and deeply driven to win.