""That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you…" -Leviticus 25:11

Obviously, things work a little different in baseball, despite its manufactured ties to the Bible, "In the big inning" yucks, etc.

Our two jubilants in 2011 were the dregs of baseball off the field and on it. One was the Mets, ironically one of two teams in the National League East with no red ink in their uniforms despite drowning in it elsewhere. And the other, of course, your Houston Astros, saving the worst for last in their infant half century.

And it's finally over, just about the worst year you could ever have imagined, absent one of the premature deaths that plagued the franchise's early history or other "real" events."