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Originally Posted by Jerok
Here is the fact: Every team who wins the World Series gets lucky. Sometimes it's because they avoided getting unlucky. A key injury or two and most teams wouldn't make it. The Royals avoided injuries and fielded healthy teams in the playoffs.
Some teams get lucky and get suddenly hot in the playoffs - the Royals hit a lot more home runs in the 2014 playoffs than they were expected to.
You can say the same thing for most teams. Some are just absolutely stacked, like this years Yankees, but even they don't have depth everywhere. If Severino gets injured they wouldn't stand a chance against the Sox or the Astros.
Take the championships when you can get them. Who cares if you get lucky. Embrace the luck and hope it happens again in the next decade.
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Exactly. IMO, the Astros won it last year because they were "lucky" to be able to avoid the Indians. The Tribe just had our number last year. We would invent ways to lose to them. NOBODY wanted to face them and I'd bet the players themselves didn't like that match-up either. BUT, once the Yankees knocked the Indians out, we were like , "Oh - Oh - We now HAVE a REAL chance!" And what a run it was - going through 3 of the League's most storied franchises in the Red Sox, Yankees and Dodgers en route to winning the team's 1st World Series!
I'll take the "LUCK" of not facing the Indians any day...
