Closing the book on 2020 is something I think all of us have been looking forward to for eons, at this point. Unfortunately, our grip has repeatedly told us there were ample pages left to leaf through, with our only hope being they were more epilogue and glossary than plot.
Mercifully, though, we’re just a handful of days away from turning that final page. And while what the Cincinnati Reds have done with their ledgers and pocketbooks is mostly meaningless in the larger scrum we’ve witnessed the last twelve months, it’s time to take a look at where things stand as we inch ever closer to this calendar’s arbitrary endpoint and again stare longingly towards the idea of them succeeding in 2021.