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Originally Posted by CalledDownLight
yea, ATL has it worse than Cleveland. 1 title in history and a lot more opportunities. Kinda funny we had to beat Cleveland to win that title tho.
He linked to the Atlanta Hawks though, not the Braves. Not sure what the o/u on expected World Series titles was for the Braves between 1991 - 2005 (?, whenever their run ended) but given the massive variance in playoff baseball I can't imagine it was higher than 3 or 4. Good thing they at least won in 1995 though or they would have crushed the Buffalo Bills in terms of fan frustration.
It's a grass is always greener thing, but I'll take the team that titles and then reverts to irrelevance. In Phoenix we'll always have great memories of the 2001 Series win over the Yankees, but the Suns have had many more chances at a title and long stretches in every decade of their existence where they were good, yet have only made two finals and have tons of what-ifs. It sucks. Plus dickbag fans of competing teams can lol @ u and you really don't have anything to come back with. Even Blazers fans have 1977.
And of course had the Cardinals luckboxed their way to a Super Bowl win in 2009 that would have been the ultimate example of a crappy team catching lighting in a bottle for one year.