The 2001 Seattle Mariners won 116 games yet got demolished in the MLB equivalent of the conference finals 4-1. The 2016 Warriors won 73 games but lost in the Finals after blowing a 3-1 lead.
Both teams had the best record of all time. But didn’t win it all. Which was more disappointing?
2007 Patriots
2016 Warriors no doubt. Baseball is usually a lot more variable, and regular season standings are a lot less indicative of which teams will win short playoff series
The fact that the Warriors won the championship in both the season before and after this, and have won two more times after that, is more than enough to make the Mariners’ season more disappointing. The Mariners followed that 116 win season with a 21 year playoff drought. The two really do not compare.
catching strays jfc. i was 9 growing up in seattle in 2001, 24 post-grad in san francisco in 2016.
2001 Mariners, they didn’t even make the World Series. At least the 2016 Warriors lost in the Finals.
But these two don’t even compare to the 2019 Tampa Bay Lightning getting swept in the first round.
2023 Bruins were even more disappointing than the Lightning, in my opinion.
Bruins have the fake record. 1977 Canadiens did it in an 80 game season when ties still existed.
But atleast they went out in 7 to a team that went to the finals, and won the Cup the next year.
The Lightning got swept by Columbus of all teams.