Jeff Passon, first things first.

How's your eye doing, man?

How's the whole, you know, corny liberation situation?

I'll tell you, it feels fine.

It was gone like 24 hours later.

But there is lasting damage.

Oh, no.

And the lasting damage comes from you posting the screenshot of our little chat there.

My friends from college have worn me out so bad on the shape of the bandage on my eye and what it looked like.

I said originally, do you want to see something?

And I should have known.

My vision, both realistically and metaphorically, was very clouded that day.

And I was neither able to look ahead in truth or strategically.

And I will be wearing it like I did that eye patch for years to come now.

Yeah, Jeff, I appreciate you letting us exploit your pain and genuine medical malady for content

here, which brings me to a follow-up question. How has your other eye reacted to what has been

unbelievable excitement and stress as you watched how this regular

season in Major League Baseball has finally come to something resembling resolution.

Yeah, it's been a little twitchy.

And listen, the days leading up to Sunday were teaming with excitement.

And the fact that we ended up with a game 162 that had six games with genuine implications

on a potential game 163 was a gift from the baseball gods.

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