Originally Posted by
AJonesATL
This one hurts so I'm going to offer some rationalization to help ease the pain. Winning it all would have been awesome and it counts for something - but make no mistake, this was a 60 game season, half the league made the playoffs, a 29-31 team made the ALCS and the playoffs were unlike any other.
As fun as it would have been and as much as I'd have still loved it, this was not a normal season and this is not a world series on par with any other. To me saying this comes with an asterisk was always going to be an understatement. Its been a gimmick of a season. As far as I'm concerned this years winner should be deemed winner of the "2020 Baseball Tournament" and calling this a normal world series is an insult to all the teams in the past that have had to grind through 162 games and make the world series by competing against only the best teams in the playoffs.
Case and point - as much as I loved our resiliency, we literally had a 2 man rotation and survived in many part because of the 60 game season. Frankly if this year went 162 games, short of trades it just would not have been sustainable. As far as I'm concerned we took advantage of the unique season to get some monkeys off our back, finally made a post season run, made all the more clear where our improvement areas are and got critical experience to benefit us in a future season that truly counts.
That's not to take anything away from our team and for the players and I know they wanted this one as much as any. Still, there is an element to me after all these years of pain that felt getting it done in this season just wouldn't have meant what I know it will and should mean if and when we finally get it done in a proper season - and ideally with 50,000 fans ROCKING.
There...I've managed to convince myself why this loss didn't matter :)