Grab it. Get some notepaper, or (better) a stickie note.

Fast forward a bit. It's mid-late February. Cs are on the road somewhere, playing a contender, a contender led by a helluva player, surrounded by promising young guys and experienced vets. It's 8:16 in the 2nd, and the Cs are down 17, a star seems to be faltering, missing shots, the Jays are trying their [dang]edest but can't quite pick it up, the opposing star is in the middle of what's looking like a classic tear.

Things are looking bad. And then you remember. You open a drawer, check a desktop, rip a sticky off the fridge. You look. On the note is written a date, a date you wrote one early November evening.

The date is November 3rd, 2017.

You smile, fill up the chip bowl, grab a beer out of the fridge. The second half starts soon.

#18in18. That symbol has a double meaning. It is, of course, the currently fashionable Hashtag character, but it's also just "number". Number 18 in '18. #18in18.

It's coming, this season. Believe it...