EOY can’t come soon enough to determine what was implied by a “seminal year”.

I wonder what definition of "seminal" Berman meant?

1 - (of a work, event, moment, or figure) strongly influencing later developments.
"his seminal work on chaos theory"
synonyms: influential · formative · groundbreaking · pioneering · original · creative · [more]

2 - relating to or denoting semen.
synonyms: spermatic · sperm · seed · spermatozoal · spermatozoan

TALK about a joke on the shareholders!! TALK about getting hit in the face!