My sports condolences go out to the Blackhawks fans among you. For those who aren’t: Chicago’s NHL team was the top dog in the Western Conference in the regular season (number one seed), and they were just swept out of the playoffs by the last team to make the playoffs in the Western Conference (number eight seed). Yes, that’s both bad and rare, and it was essentially a historic disappointment. With baseball’s randomness and smaller playoff pool, you’re much more likely to see a behemoth get swept in the divisional round by a Wild Card team, so we don’t really have a parallel to point to in baseball for this kind of ugliness. So, yeah. Sorry, Blackhawks fans.
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"Come to the game," they said, "Smell the fresh air," they said. 😑 pic.twitter.com/okMSg69UAN
— Baseball is Fun (@flippingbats) April 20, 2017
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— Brett Taylor (@BleacherNation) April 21, 2017
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— Andy (@pucktails) April 21, 2017