Good morning, Birdland!
We all have plenty of baseball-related things to be thankful for this year, and hopefully that’s true for you beyond the diamond as well. That feels like a sentence that we should able say reliably for at least a couple more years.
But let’s be honest, today is not a baseball-focused holiday. The hot stove we care about here is far more literal. And although the football featured on Thanksgiving tends to be sub-optimal, at least it’s there, and as Keanu Reeves said in one of the marquee films of my youth, Hardball “One of the most important things in life is showing up.