Baseball finally returned yesterday for the first time since October 2019. Or at least, it returned with a much more familiar sense of normality for the first time since October 2019... other than the St. Louis Cardinals scoring 11 runs in a game. I know a shortened baseball season was played in 2020. It counts in the record books and everything. But that odd, 60-game sprint had a late July opening day, was almost universally played in front of cardboard cutouts, without minor league teams, culminating in a World Series played at a neutral site.