Baseball seasons are long. Luckily, this Blue Jays team is also one of the most fun to watch in recent memory, and if fans need some energy to sustain their enthusiasm, they’ll certainly find it between the lines and in the dugout over the next six months.

As the Toronto Blue Jays move forward, 2021 will be a year with too many specific details to remember, but too many moments that we’ll never forget. And with everything that emerged out of such a tumultuous season, there are interesting times ahead.

The negotiating parties on both side of this MLB work stoppage should fully appreciate that they are already past their deadline, and the longer that the league remains in its current state of decaying dormancy, the greater the damage they do to the business they claim to want to preserve.

Few experiences can offer a feeling of shared passion and unlikely community like a sports event does, when thousands of strangers feel like friends because they're cheering on the home team. Blue Jays fans in Toronto will know what that feels like again this Friday.

For Blue Jays fans, as they saw the remnants of the playoff teams from the midway of the last decade disassemble, 2021 was destined to be the earliest of those prime years, but seemed like such a long time to wait. And now, here we are.

As we close this year, and look warily ahead to the next, it seems like folly to attempt to make any predictions on what next season will look like. From the questions of how many games the Blue Jays may play to where they’ll actually play them, everything feels uncertain.

There are many reasons to quibble in assessing the relative success of the 2020 season for the Toronto Blue Jays but fan should find themselves apologizing or doubting the achievement of making the playoffs.