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Oakland A's anyone? You guys act like this kind of stuff never happens in the real world when it happens ever single year. Rarely does the team with the best record win the WS. And there are plenty of juggernaut teams in the regular season that don't win the WS. The A's of the late 80's and early 90's and the A's of the Beane era. Just look at last year's champs. The Cardinals were awesome from 03-05 but were swept in the WS one year and knocked out earlier in the playoffs the other years. Then turn around and win the WS when they had their worst season to date... and they knocked out 95+ win team one after another.
I think the main thing that makes playoff baseball so unpredictable (both in and out of the game) is that when you talk about... say, a 90 win team and a 100 win team, the difference just isn't that great when you're talking about a 162 game season. It basically comes down to the 100 win team winning an extra game every two weeks. When you cut the difference between the two teams down to 5 and 7 games, we're talking a fraction of a game difference between the two over the course of the season.
Long story short... these things happen. Deal.
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Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy for most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favor of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader; to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.
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- Bertrand Russell: Essay on education
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