New Years Weekend Open Thread

2017 is over, folks. It was a fun year in baseball. Everything else? Well, that’s a topic for another blog. We are now in 2018 and only six weeks away from the start of Spring Training. Hooray for that.

Anyway, I wrote a thing at CBS about players who would’ve been free agents this offseason had they not signed long-term extensions. Mike Trout! Jose Altuve! Paul Goldschmidt! Could’ve been a fun free agent class. Alas. Also, here again is Richard Deitsch’s collection of the top stories of 2017. There’s plenty of everything in there. Sports, science, crime, politics, you name it. Check it out and read what you like.

Here’s an open thread for final weekend of 2017. Talk about anything here other than religion or politics. You know the routine.