Baseball in 2002. Bud Selig was Major League Baseball’s commissioner, and Barry Bonds just broke the single-season home run record the prior season. The All-Star Game ended in an embarrassing tie. The Expos were still in Montreal, and the Houston Astros were still in the National League.
This was post-9/11 and pre-Congressional hearings into PEDs in baseball. No one knew what a defensive shift was, and analytics was known as Moneyball….