{"id":2127,"date":"2018-10-10T08:43:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T04:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2127"},"modified":"2018-10-10T08:43:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T04:43:16","slug":"nats-due-for-a-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2127","title":{"rendered":"Nats due for a championship?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at\u00a0<em>The Washington Post<\/em> have jumped on an idea of mine from two and a half years ago: greatest teams never to win a championship. (See <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1139\">here<\/a>.) Chris Rukan considers the Nationals of the past seven years versus other teams over such a period. That piece is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/2018\/10\/01\/nationals-really-should-have-won-world-series-by-now\/?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.3feafe94ef31\">here<\/a>, limited to <em>baseball<\/em> and going back only to 1969, the first year of the League Championship Series.<\/p>\n<p>Rukan identifies seven teams with better overall records than the Nats who didn&#8217;t win championships. The Nats, however, are the only team with the sad distinction of never winning even one playoff series.<\/p>\n<p>Ouch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at\u00a0The Washington Post have jumped on an idea of mine from two and a half years ago: greatest teams never to win a championship. (See here.) Chris Rukan considers the Nationals of the past seven years versus other &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2127\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2128,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions\/2128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}