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For those who might be quietly waiting for the bubble to pop, I think this is a good time to point out that this is the team that the scouts thought we were going to have.

I know we've been making depressed sometimes dismissive jokes about "the greatest farm system of all time", but a lot of these players who were disappointing for parts of last season and earlier this year did come with stellar minor league pedigrees, so if we're finally playing like a strong playoff team, well thats what we were expecting they would be 3 years or so ago. This isn't necessarily a surprising fluke that has no chance of lasting like 2003.