James: Ambivalent. The 2021 season was still very much a joke, just not the joke 2020 was. Also, The Diamondbacks were simply so bad in 2021 that I found it difficult to become more than mildly intrigued by anything baseball. My biggest takeaway is that the Dodgers did not repeat, so all is well.
Jack: They deserved it. Forget their regular season win total. They overcame a lot, and over the final 3 months (including October) were the best team in baseball. Kudos. I wasn’t rooting for them, (except for NLCS of course) but I wasn’t emotionally invested against them either.