When you have a team with the best starting pitchers, relievers, batting average, and defense, it’s hard to be surprised when they finish with the best overall record (92-52), followed by a relatively easy post-season series against the Sea Gulls and, finally, a very talented Thunder Bay team, seeking their fourth championship in the GLBL.

But, in the end, it was the Toledo Neptune’s walking away with their first championship in a league that now has 14 seasons to its history. For Bill A., original General Manager of the Toledo franchise, it was a sweet culmination of putting the right pieces in place and parlaying it into a championship for the USA League, its second in a row.

How appropriate that the God of the Sea is the reigning champ in a league that is bound by the Great Lake waters. Hail to the Neptunes!