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PostPosted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 7:08 pm 
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Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
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Every year several teams go into the season knowing they are not playoff bound.


Not often a team as mighty as the heritage franchise NL Chicago Baseball Club.

What's so mighty about a team with with enough playoff appearances in past 50 years that can be counted on 1 hand?

Edit: One hand if you're Antonio Alfonseca. Forgot about '98


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Kirkwood wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
rogers park bryan wrote:
Every year several teams go into the season knowing they are not playoff bound.


Not often a team as mighty as the heritage franchise NL Chicago Baseball Club.

What's so mighty about a team with with enough playoff appearances in past 50 years that can be counted on 1 hand?


That was a little sarcasm. My point is that big market teams and ESPN darlings don't often break it all the way down the way the Cubs have.

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Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
Kirkwood wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
rogers park bryan wrote:
Every year several teams go into the season knowing they are not playoff bound.


Not often a team as mighty as the heritage franchise NL Chicago Baseball Club.

What's so mighty about a team with with enough playoff appearances in past 50 years that can be counted on 1 hand?


That was a little sarcasm. My point is that big market teams and ESPN darlings don't often break it all the way down the way the Cubs have.

Gotcha, my bad.


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