[bedir than average]

Originally Posted by bedir than average

Which team has performed the best over the past seven seasons? How can we judge this? And which team's past seven years would be best to emulate for your club in the coming seven?
Should attendance be a consideration over the period?
Do we care about MVPs, CyYoungs, RoY and other individual awards when judging the teams?
What about total wins (ie is Seattle's 2001 season worth noting?)?

Would you accept your team pulling a Florida and mortgaging the now every few years so they could win in the future? Or would you rather root for a club like Seattle who hung onto the past for a few years too long?

To condense to just the question. My purpose here is to wonder what fans accept from their teams. Since only the Yankees can be the Yankees, the question can be answered for bigheadache as stating that he finds following a team that enters September with a chance at the Division Crown every year and performing well in the playoffs on occaision acceptable. Myself, I think that I would prefer the Cardinals model, or a slightly higher bar being my standard.

A Series Victory with two League Pennants built through draft, trade and free agency in balance with a few Stars, a Hall of Famer in a beautiful park with great attendance. They spend money, but not absurd amounts. To me they are the standard by which I would judge the Mariners right now. And the Mariners are failing.