03-07-2010, 03:07 PM
<!--quoteo(post=81884:date=Mar 7 2010, 12:47 PM:name=Ace)-->QUOTE (Ace @ Mar 7 2010, 12:47 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=81882:date=Mar 7 2010, 01:44 PM:name=Clapp)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Clapp @ Mar 7 2010, 01:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=81867:date=Mar 7 2010, 10:40 AM:name=jstraw)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (jstraw @ Mar 7 2010, 10:40 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=81863:date=Mar 7 2010, 10:51 AM:name=Clapp)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Clapp @ Mar 7 2010, 10:51 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->And yes, I realize I'm the asshat that started this thread. I'm all over the place with this team. I still see us being better than last year regardless, but if it doesn't include a title, it's not anywhere close to good enough.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I'd like to think that we can't string together another unbroken chain of bad luck, shit-headedness and suckitude like last season. But as far as I'm concerned, we can not go to the post-season and it still <i>could</i> be good enough.
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I won't accept anything other than a title when it's been over 100 years. 08 was every bit as much of a failure as 09.
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If you told me right now that my choices for 2010 were:
(1) Guaranteed World Series appearance and loss, or
(2) Take your chances with whatever is going to happen for this team
I'd take number 1 without hesitation. Is that bad?
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Well no, that's the choice I'd make too. Duh. Guaranteed NL champs v. all possibilities (with what we have to put on the field now). No brainer.
But we don't live in Disneyland and we don't have that option. "Whatever is going to happen" is what we get. I'm not beginning the season viewing no-post-season as failure.
I'd like to think that we can't string together another unbroken chain of bad luck, shit-headedness and suckitude like last season. But as far as I'm concerned, we can not go to the post-season and it still <i>could</i> be good enough.
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I won't accept anything other than a title when it's been over 100 years. 08 was every bit as much of a failure as 09.
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If you told me right now that my choices for 2010 were:
(1) Guaranteed World Series appearance and loss, or
(2) Take your chances with whatever is going to happen for this team
I'd take number 1 without hesitation. Is that bad?
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Well no, that's the choice I'd make too. Duh. Guaranteed NL champs v. all possibilities (with what we have to put on the field now). No brainer.
But we don't live in Disneyland and we don't have that option. "Whatever is going to happen" is what we get. I'm not beginning the season viewing no-post-season as failure.