Is it World Series or bust for Dodgers and their fans? Depends on your mindset.
Another suggestion, for those tempted to look three series ahead to the prospect of winning the World Series: Don’t set expectations you can’t exceed.
I’ll spare you the details, but the eras of eight-team playoffs, and four-team playoffs before that, produced far more frustration than victory parades for regular-season leaders. Weirdly, even back before divisions and playoffs, when the top team in each league went directly to the World Series, the club with the better regular-season record lost the World Series more often than it won in the post-World War II era.
Still, perception is reality when a team finds itself having to answer for past failures as it gets ready to try again.it overthinks strategy “It doesn’t change the burning desire to win a World Series every year,” Friedman said. “But I think it’s important for those of us who pour ourselves into it to be able to compartmentalize, appreciate certain successes, learn from certain failures and figure out how to get back and put us in the best position to win a World Series the next year.”
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