re: WTH just happened?

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Dude, your goal is to win a national championship every year, not finish second. If you're happy with second then you're happy with participation trophies too.

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Of course that's the goal. But being happy about a great performance like LSU's 2017 baseball team had is not tantamount to settling for second. That would only be the case if we were suggesting not to try to improve.

Guys like you don't understand this because you've spent your life living vicariously rather than striving to achieve. I give you The Man in the Arena

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.