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That's what is so great about baseball...there's always next year!!!

Yup ... my Orioles gotta wait till next year! Or some distant year thereafter when Peter Angelos leaves this mortal coil. As for my team -- maybe I'll move them to Syracuse for the upcoming season.

That's what is so great about baseball...there's always next year!!!

For most baseball fans, the saddest words of tongue or pen are, "Wait 'till next year." For us Cub fans, the saddest words are, "This is next year". - George F. Will.

"Ahhh, wait 'till last year!" - Newspaper wag, after the Brooklyn Dodgers were defeated in the 1956 World Series by the New York Yankees...whom the Bums defeated in the 1955 Series, for the only World Series title ever won in Brooklyn.

"Every year is next year for the New York Yankees." - Roger Kahn, in his lead for the story of the Yankees' 1953 World Series triumph over - you guessed it - the Dodgers.

Sign whipped up by a Chicago Cub fan in Wrigley Field on Opening Day, 1980: Wait Till Next Year!

"Next year, we've got to cut back on the losses. At least, back to 110." - Joan Payson*, the original owner of the New York Mets, looking ahead to the Mets' second season (1963). The Amazin' Mets lost 120 games in their inaugural season - but seduced a city and no small part of a country while doing it.

Wait Till Next Century - Smart@$$ placard held up by Fenway Park fan on a Red Sox home opening day in the late 1980s.

* - Trivia: Before she was awarded the Mets franchise for the National League's first expansion, Joan Payson had been a minority stockholder in the New York Giants - and, through a proxy, was the only member of the team's board of directors to vote against the Giants moving to San Francisco after 1957. (She had been a baseball nut since girlhood and was a die-hard Giants fan, holding a season seat at the Polo Grounds until the team did move. And it may have been Joan Payson herself who suggested the Mets revive the Giants' 1950s cap insignia as their own, as well as patterning the Mets' original traveling uniform style after a style used by the Giants during the earlier 1940s...) Payson died in 1975, just days after the Mets' first manager, Casey Stengel, died.