Previous to this reversal, the hot takes were
mostly about how Strasburg's refusal to pitch (if that's what it was) was a slap in the face to his teammates (unless they understood) and how the postseason was where Curt Schilling bled for your sins and Kirk Gibson didn't need to be ambulatory to slay his mustachioed dragon (unless, stay with me here, this
situation was somehow
unique and deserved to be treated as such).