I know someone else has said it before, but I cant help but think: what if the players got it done 2016? Or 2017? Both? This would change the perception drastically I imagine. Especially in baseball the margin is razor thin. Those teams were easily good enough to win and the players just flat out choked it away- not really Dolan’s fault, and I’m the furthest thing from a Dolan shill.
We’d probably all still be drunk from the celebration. I think that’s where a lot of the Indians angst comes from. Cavs got over the hump. The Browns haven’t been close in 30 years. The Indians, even in my 30 years of life, have come infuriatingly close many times. And they’ve had teams (2017) that didn’t come that close but were incredibly strong and lost to lesser teams. Odds would tell me the Tribe would breakthrough and win in one of these instances but they haven’t.
I get it, frankly. Separating the economics of baseball and Dolan and spending from the equation, I get the general frustration. A WS would honestly mean more to me than a Superbowl. Hopefully we all get to see one someday.
