NYaT Roundtable: Top Storylines/Memories of the 2010 Regular Season

With the 2010 season in the books, I decided to ask the NYaT writers what were their favorite moments/memories from this regular season were and here's what we came up with:

Strasburg made lasting impressions (Canadian Press)

Andrew:
1) Armando Galarraga and James Joyce. In a year of perfection on the mound, this near perfection may be my greatest memory. The incident, the backlash, the apologies, and the way everyone handled it in the end may make this one stick in my mind longer than Roy Halladay or Dallas "Get Off My Mound" Braden
2) Stephen Strasburg and Aroldis Chapman. This could also be represented by Buster Posey, Neftali Feliz, Austin Jackson, Jason Heyward or anyone else we listed for the NL Rookie of the Year race. It was a great year for young arms (who threw absolute gas), prospects making impacts and big debuts--though the Strasburg injury taught us all that the highs are as great as the lows with baseball prospects at times.
3) Saying good-bye. How about this to sweep away my childhood? Ken Griffey, Jr. retired, Bobby Cox and Cito Gaston hung it up as well and George Steinbrenner and Bob Sheppard died--the last two contributing to a very emotional All-Star Game as Derek Jeter stepped to the batters box to lead-off the game.

Jay:
1) Stephen Strasburg (7 IP, 2 ER, 14 K, 0 BB) wows baseball universe in MLB debut
2) 5 no-hitters, including 2 perfect games within a 20-day span
3) Troy Tulowitzki's unbelievable September (.303/.366/.754, 15 HR, 40 RBI, 30 R)

Ben P:
1) The San Diego Padres Big Year- Coming into the year, the Padres probably had one of the weakest teams on paper. Behind some very good young pitching, they finish just one game out of the wild card and 2 games out of the division, proving that you can still get it done with a tiny payroll.
2) Stephen Strasburg -When healthy, Strasburg more than lived up to the hype. His stuff and command were about as good as anyone else in baseball. His injury is bad news for Washington fans, as well as the MLB.
3) A New Pitching era begins - With all the perfect (and near perfect) games and the power decline (besides Jose Bautista), post-steriod baseball, with a generation of very good young pitchers, looks like a low scoring game.

Ari:

The slipper fell off the Padres foot at the very end of 2010 (SacBee)

1) Reds finally got good at baseball
2) Yankees flopped down the stretch bigtime
3) Mets won a 20+ inning game in which K-Rod tossed about 9 innings in the pen.

Ben W:
1) Rise and fall of Stephen Strasburg
2) Year of the pitcher
3) The San Diego Padres

Elissa:
1) Stephen Strasburg (who didn't watch his debut?)
2) K-Rod: April 2010 - anchor of the Mets bullpen; August 2010 - Arrested for punching his father-in-law at Citi Field in the family lounge; August 2010 - Out for the season after injuring his thumb while punching his father-in-law at Citi Field in the family lounge (didn't he learn anything from Bull Durham?) September 2010 - Charged with criminal contempt for violating his restraining order by texting his girlfriend 56 times. Now that I think about it, K-Rod could be all 3 of my headlines.
t-3) George Steinbrenner dies at 80 - leaves behind Yankees winning legacy, brand new stadium, and enormous life-sized monument of himself
t-3) Manny Ramirez gets waived (Question: How many people with hall of fame numbers get let go like that? Answer: None)

Sarah:
1) Sitting in the General Electric suite at Fenway Labor Day weekend and seeing Manny Ramirez come back to Boston
2) Being at Yankees Stadium and randomly seeing my uncle on the huge HD screen in centerfield.
3) Going to Citi Field and standing in the outfield to see Dave Matthews Band perform.

What do you think? What were your three greatest memories from the regular season this year?