That never happened ... until the postseason

But if the point of baseball is to bring us as much happiness as possible (and what else could it possibly be?), this is at least a cheap trope worth engaging. Over the past 50 years, research into well-being has revealed the unsettling fact that we are awful at predicting what will make us happier. Marriage doesn't, kids don't, higher income doesn't, BMWs don't. Winning the lottery does ... for a few weeks. Then the winners of particularly large sums actually end up ... unhappier.
A few years ago, at Baseball Prospectus, I looked at what differentiated World Series winners and losers after the series ended and found two things: World Series winners over the past 25 years have averaged five fewer wins the following season than the losers did. Perhaps relatedly, World Series winners tend to bring almost all their players back, while World Series losers continue to upgrade.
But research has shown we quickly get complacent after any positive event and return to our baselines: the "hedonic treadmill" theory. An example from the stands: A study that asked football fans to predict how they would feel if their Cheap football jerseys, team won the next game found they overestimated, by a lot.
Game 3 was a nail-biter and scoreless in the fifth inning, when Joe Maddon pulled Kyle Hendricks for Justin Grimm with the bases loaded and one out. The move was an odd one, but the finish was fairy tale in nature for Grimm, who escaped by getting Francisco Lindor to hit into a double play. It was the first double play Grimm had induced in 56 innings all season and the first double play he had induced with the bases loaded in his career. The ending was an unhappy one for the Cubs, though, as they lost 1-0.
Stu Shea, our Cubs fan since '69, lived through the unfulfilled promise of rosters studded with Ernie Banks and Billy Williams and Fergie Jenkins and Ron Santo. He trudged into and out of Wrigley Field for hundreds of losses that brought heartache and for hundreds of wins that led only to dead ends. He saw Kerry Wood strike out 20 on a May afternoon, and then he saw Kerry Wood's career break into fragments. He joined a cult that self-identified as "losers." He went to wholesale NFL jerseys from china Game 6 of the 2003 NLCS and, after watching Moises Alou erupt when a fan named Steve Bartman attempted to catch a foul ball, Shea walked outside with a Cubs fan base that, he recalls, "felt that something had gone bad in the universe."
Yes, the premise of this story is a cheap trope. "Something is lost or not quite the same," USA Today worried on behalf of Red Sox fans after 2004, and writers and fans have managed to stay unsettled by the fallout of that victory ever since. The decade after 2004 -- two more championships, the astoundingly pleasurable career of David Ortiz, Cheap jerseys China waves of young talent, Fenway's sellout streak -- were fretted over. "True" fans created barriers to late entry, dismissing bandwagoners with the ***ist "pink hats" slur. The subsequent victories didn't seem as sweet, and even defeats left fans emptier than they used to. The franchise got bogged down by bad contracts and drama, the story goes, and like the pigs in Animal Farm, it began to resemble the Yankees after all.
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