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I mean, they’re all crazy. 2010 Bruins probably first because of what @auror said. But, the Pats were almost assuredly the greatest team of all time and lost to my 10-6, Wildcard NYFBG. That was insane.
 
CCSUblue said:
Fun fact, no team that holds the record for best record in a regular season among the big 4 sports has won the championship.

Mariners, Patriots, Warriors, and now Bruins all lost in the playoffs.
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I saw that on Sports Center this morning and as a Rays fan it freaked me out
 
Fun fact, since the NHL started awarding the President's Cup for best regular season record, only 8 of the 36 President Cup winners have won the Stanley Cup.
 
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stephen Henry said:
That 1978 collapse was so traumatic and painful that I quit following baseball.
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I don't know, the 1986 collapse in the World Series was pretty catastrophic as well.

True story, 5-6 years after the one-game playoff with the Yankees in 1978 I'm at Fenway for a game with the Orioles. First batter of the game gets ready to step to the plate and the place goes crazy, boos, profanity, insulting his mother.....it went on for about five minutes.

It was Bucky Dent!
 
CCSUblue said:
Fun fact, no team that holds the record for best record in a regular season among the big 4 sports has won the championship.

Mariners, Patriots, Warriors, and now Bruins all lost in the playoffs.
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96, 97 Chicago Bulls
 
RichCTBB said:
96, 97 Chicago Bulls
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Sorry, I misread that…missed the RECORD for best record, although it could be argued that at until the warriors won 73 games, the Bulls did have the record and a championship in the same year (96 with 72 wins)
 
CardiacAndre7 said:
I mean, they’re all crazy. 2010 Bruins probably first because of what @auror said. But, the Pats were almost assuredly the greatest team of all time and lost to my 10-6, Wildcard NYFBG. That was insane.
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I hear you but the nature of football is that it's one game like the NCAA tournament and the Giants outplayed the Patriots. Patriots couldn't deal with the Giants pass rush at all. Still, the Patriots had like 5 chances to come up with a defensive play on that last drive and they couldn't.
 
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stephen Henry said:
That 1978 collapse was so traumatic and painful that I quit following baseball.
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The Boston Massacre (early September 1978) was about as much fun as any four game series could be (basically when I first started college).

One thing I'll never forget is that in each of the four games, at least one Yankee was three four three before the Red Sox ninth hitter got an at bat. That series was when the Yanks caught the Red Sox. I believe the Yanks built up to a two game lead with about ten games left but the Sox finished the season 10-0 while the Yanks went 8-2 (the second loss on the last day of the regular season). Both teams had tremendous seasons, which each included an extended stretch of basically unsustainable excellence and a (very) brief stretch of very average play. The timing of when each happened is what made it appear that one team collapsed (if someone wants to stretch things, they can claim both had a collapse) but in reality it was two exceptional teams that finished in a dead heat.
 
Kolumbo said:
I think you have to include the '72 Dolphins. Undefeated is undefeated. They were perfect. Nuff said.
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I said best record for a regular season. So the 16-0 Patriots had a better record.

I also didn't say ever. Just the current record holders.
 
CCSUblue said:
I said best record for a regular season. So the 16-0 Patriots had a better record.

I also didn't say ever. Just the current record holders.
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14-0 is the same as 16-0. You have to go by percentages because number of games change over time. Otherwise one would argue that 15-1 is a better record than 14-0.
 
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Kolumbo said:
14-0 is the same as 16-0. You have to go by percentages because number of games change over time. Otherwise one would argue that 15-1 is a better record than 14-0.
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If a baseball team was 16-0 to start the season and another in the same division was 14-0, which would be in first place? And how many games behind would the 14-0 team be in the standings?
 
stephen Henry said:
That 1978 collapse was so traumatic and painful that I quit following baseball.
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I was there, and have a photo from my right field bleacher seat a couple innings earlier. We had a perfect view of the ball's arc and instant certainty that it was a home run.

I didn't quit following baseball until 1986, plus + Calvin Schirraldi's melt down series, and then finally a blown series during the Pedro Martinez years. I was so traumatized that I refused to watch the 2004 wins until late or extra innings, if at all. The World Series win was a foregone conclusion, but I avoided the joy & excitement of the American championship rather than risk the pain. Years later,a friend gave me a DVD about the season, and I was even anxious watching that, somehow worried there was some way that the outcome could change.

Everything I know about loss aversion I learned from being a Red Sox fan for as long as I've been a UConn MBB fan, going back to WTIC broadcasts on my first clock radio, back before the Beatles came to America.
 
Kolumbo said:
14-0 is the same as 16-0. You have to go by percentages because number of games change over time. Otherwise one would argue that 15-1 is a better record than 14-0.
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This just in...14=16.

You don't have to go by percentages. Because when you do 1-0 is the same as 16-0.

In the end, the Dolphins won 17 total games. But the Patriots won 18. Again, those are different numbers.
 
August_West said:
LOL Bruins.


LGR!
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Absolutely want the Rangers to win tonight (and three more series' afterwards) but it may be a bit early to LOL another team. If we hadn't treated game three like a throwaway game we would have swept the Devils.
 
FfldCntyFan said:
Absolutely want the Rangers to win tonight (and three more series' afterwards) but it may be a bit early to LOL another team. If we hadn't treated game three like a throwaway game we would have swept the Devils.
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LOL Bruins.
 
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