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Originally Posted by gargamel
This goal to make the playoffs reminds me of an old interview with a baseball player that I heard about years ago. I may be a little off on the details, but basically, the reporter asked him if his goal was to hit .350 for the season. The player responded, "No, my goal is to hit 1.000. I don't go up to the plate hoping to get a hit a third of the time; I go up to the plate hoping to get a hit every time." It's a good thing this board wasn't around then or everyone would have ripped him for being unrealistic. "What a joke. You're not going to hit 1.000." Of course not, but success is the goal.
I'd hate to be a fan of a team where it wasn't.
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There's a difference between our goal is the make the playoffs and our mandate from ownership is make the playoffs. Poor language was chosen, and as a result of myopic decisions in the past, it makes people nervous.