For the last two years, my December print column has looked ahead to the coming year with wishes for the Baltimore sports community.
Looking back on my wishes for 2018, it's sort of a mixed bag, but I got a lot that I wanted.
I knocked my first wish out of the park. I hoped to see at least one of the five Division I college basketball teams in the greater Baltimore area return to the NCAA Tournament. Not only did that happen, it was nearly the singular reason this particular issue of PressBox could even exist.
My second wish was to finally see a sense of "direction" for the Orioles. As painful as it seems it will be, the rebuilding process indeed will provide that for Baltimore baseball fans. My third wish was to feel more of a "touch" in the community from the Ravens. Obviously that's a bit more difficult to define, but the relationship between team and city still isn't quite what it once was.
