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There are few feelings that compare to clinching a playoff birth with your teammates. Properly celebrating the moment is crucial, because it reminds you what you spent the last 10+ months fighting for.
In the regular season, you get programmed to stay even keeled. When you lose, you can’t let it consume you. Even the extended losing streaks that send the media, fans, and front office into a panic. When you win, you have to remind yourself there are still lot of games to play.
You work all off season (3-4 months), spring training (1.5 months), and 150+ regular season games to taste champagne. Across that span, you lose teammates to injury, trades, and roster changes. Some guys lose their starting positions and experience extended slumps that make the personal experience very turbulent.
But at the end of the day, baseball is a team sport played by individuals. All of the adversity you experienced, as a team and individuals, has been weathered. Many players have had to step up, pick one another up, and keep the train moving down the tracks.
Inevitably, there were moments where the media, the fans, and the community of baseball wrote you off. That external noise has been silenced, and for one night nothing matters other than celebrating the moment with the teammates, coaches, and front office who worked their asses off to achieve a common goal.
Obviously the work is not done, but making the playoffs is not easy. Only one team ends the season with a win, so don’t overlook this moment.
Congratulations to all of the teams who have punched their ticket to the big dance in October, and best of luck to all of those still fighting to earn their spot.
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