The Atlanta Braves

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GAVol said:
I get it, but that's a little bit BS. They made the playoffs and let the chips fall.
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Without one of a couple key decisions, the injury to a set up man, 87 bloop doubles, a different baseball or the complete disappearance of Freddie Freeman we make the NLCS.

Nats would have steamrolled us either way.
 
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Bassmaster_Vol said:
Losing in the playoffs in the first round, again, proves it didn’t. Especially when those two guys were terrible.
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Except it doesn't.

And the funny thing is, one of the main reasons they crapped out on the playoffs is a guy they actually spent money on have them 8 innings in 2 starts.
 
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GAVol said:
Except it doesn't.

And the funny thing is, one of the main reasons they crapped out on the playoffs is a guy they actually spent money on have them 8 innings in 2 starts.
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The Nationals proved there is value in just being there every year. But they also proved it valuable to sign big money free agents when then opportunity presents itself.

Like anything, it’s a mixed bag.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
There aren't a lot of football coaches at this level who think of themselves as "guys who are made for a program with low expectations." Last year was a magical year where he had two of the best players in the history of the program, everything broke his way.....and he still capped out in the Citrus Bowl. And the next year he's right back down to looking at 6-6 or 7-5 or so. Unless he's got a family who really loves Lexington, if he gets a chance to go to FSU he'll probably jump at it.
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Oh I know that Stoops surely doesn't think of himself that way, I just wonder if he is that way. He'd absolutely bolt for FSU if offered. Maybe he's a Dan Mullen-type who spent longer than most expected at a low expectation program waiting for the perfect job instead of jumping at the first bigger job that came his way, and he'll do well at FSU. After all, that's kind of how things operate in the real world. The CFB world seems to be made up almost exclusively of ladder-climbers on steroids who think the grass is always greener somewhere else.
 
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Florida Stanley said:
Didn’t work when it mattered and that’s all that matters.
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Baseball playoffs are whack though. Always have been. The pitch-by-pitch, game-by-game flow is so random they have to play 162 games in order to figure out who the best teams are, then when the playoffs start you have to win 3 games out of 5 or you're toast. I think that's one of the reasons why a failure to have won a World Series isn't held against legendary baseball players who never won one. You play this really long season, then it boils down to this insanely compressed (relative to the length of the regular season) playoff series which is played a lot differently than regular season games are.

If you make the playoff in CFB, your season boils down to 1 game which is 7.7% of the season (if you played 12 games + conference title game). In the NFL, your season also boils down to 1 game, which is 6.25% of the regular season. In the NHL and NBA, it boils down to a 7 game series, which is 8.5% of the regular season. In MLB, it boils down to a 5 game series, which is just 3% of the regular season. I think that difference is pretty significant - they play much fewer regular season games in the NBA and NHL yet their playoff series are much longer.

If the playoffs start and you don't "have it" immediately in baseball, there's virtually zero time to find it before the series is over. I guess you could say the same about football, which boils down to just a single game, but football is also nowhere near as random as baseball is.
 
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