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<blockquote data-quote="the juiceman cometh" data-source="post: 1680277" data-attributes="member: 747321"><p>I get what you're saying, and agree in part. The idea that this team would lose Ayo and get better struck me as crazy, but it became an article of faith on here. I felt like a pessimist merely thinking this was a top-10 team (ah, if only!), and quietly thinking the media rankings seemed about right, which would be blasphemous on this site. </p><p></p><p>But I think the team also kind of fed the hype train. All the Hutch hype was being fed by practice reports. And I think Curbelo himself at one point said this year's team was going to be better than last year's team. I don't think it's fair to pin this entirely this on fans having unreasonable expectations (though again, I agree a lot of those expectations were unreasonable) when the team is also failing to live up to the expectations of the media or the team itself as well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="the juiceman cometh, post: 1680277, member: 747321"] I get what you're saying, and agree in part. The idea that this team would lose Ayo and get better struck me as crazy, but it became an article of faith on here. I felt like a pessimist merely thinking this was a top-10 team (ah, if only!), and quietly thinking the media rankings seemed about right, which would be blasphemous on this site. But I think the team also kind of fed the hype train. All the Hutch hype was being fed by practice reports. And I think Curbelo himself at one point said this year's team was going to be better than last year's team. I don't think it's fair to pin this entirely this on fans having unreasonable expectations (though again, I agree a lot of those expectations were unreasonable) when the team is also failing to live up to the expectations of the media or the team itself as well. [/QUOTE]
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