What Was Most Excellent About Baseball in 2010?

Leading Greco-American and PITCH f/x expert Harry Pavlidis — in response to Frank DeFord’s suggestion that “sports sucked in 2010” — is fielding nominations for the things that sucked hardest about baseball specifically in the last calendar year.

Because we here at NotGraphs want nothing more than to be the warm yellow light that pours all over everyone, allow me to take the very opposite tact and pose this: Which moments or events or other baseball-related things were most excellent in 2010?

At the risk of biasing the readership, here are a couple-few suggestions from inside my soul:

• That one time when Andres Torres metamorphosed into a giant insect… in order to more ably catch a tailing fliner.

• That one time when Colby Lewis was granted sainthood and knighthood.

• That other time when Colby Lewis was awarded all the Nobel Prizes for all the categories.

People, though: I can’t do this alone. Help a Cistulli out.