Great question. I really enjoy following entire baseball seasons when my team is contending. Watching pro sports is all about entertainment, and as long as my team is in it, that's entertaining.
I'll never be a Yankee fan and say the season was a failure if we win but don't win it all, especially after making the playoffs. Only one club ever wins the last game of any season, and to be totally unsatisfied if that's not your team is unreasonable and elitist.
But last place seasons suck, and drain the fun out of being a fan. As a Red Sox fan, I wouldn't trade this century because of what I went through last century. However, it wouldn't be so bad to be a Cardinals fan; a winning record every single year since 2000, first or second place 15 times, in the postseason 15 times, won 2 WS, lost 2 WS... (ya, to Boston, but we owed them).
We really did not finish in last place too often from the 70's through the 90's. I think 1992 might have been the only time.
It's funny, because I used to tell my fellow Sox fans, for decades, "I'll take 10 last place finishes for just one ring." Well, we may hit 10 last place finishes in my lifetime, but 4 rings is 4 times all I ever hoped for in all of my sports fandom.
We might even reach 10 last place finsihes from the 70's on, before we reach 10 rings, but to me, the 4 outweighs them all, and my guess is we reach 5 before I'm in the ground.
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
Championships since purchase by John Henry group: Red Sox 4 Yankees 1
The Red Sox are 8-1 in their last 9 postseason games against the Yankees.