I simply wanted to express the thought that came into my head while also saying that...

It was a ball,

it was called a strike,

The cubs are in the NLDS,

and while I recognize that the Brewers are probably the better team,

I hope to #FlyTheW outside my house 11 more times before October ends.

The x-factor abilities that made/make players great. The unwritten rules & aura that would take a player from good to great.

I write all this not to denounce OR celebrate ABS making its way into the game in 2026. Not to get on a soapbox about how the game is changing &change is bad (it's not).

ABS is undoubtably going to help the game get things 'right' more. It takes the game to a binary level. 1 or 0, alive or dead, there's no gray area with it.

But in that same way, it takes away some of the unidentifiable magic that makes the game amazing.

I almost always feel that more data...more information is always better.

How can you think that knowing more is ever a bad thing?

How can having more reliable information be bad?

But one of the things I love about baseball is the stories that it allows us to tell.

As I was reading the story, I loved how he pointed out the framing process by Carson Kelly. And for whatever reason it triggered a thought in my head that, the game is getting less 'romantic' with next year's introduction of ABS.

And that thought is at odds with my normal desires on data & stats.

Yep, looks like it worked without issue when I logged in with blue sky. I logged out and tried logging in with my handle too, and that worked as well. Thanks!