The offseason is always rough. One of the best things about baseball season is how routine the games are - no matter what happens during the day, there’s almost always a game to follow and digest. When a routine that long suddenly gets cut short, it’s jarring. We shift to discoursing over trades and signings, watching highlight reels of the past season, or even going deep into YouTube to watch games from bygone eras (as an aside, here’s the 1979 All-Star Game - held at the Kingdome!). Even when your team had a bad season the year before, their absence looms large.