Article: For Blue Jays, Best Is Not Good Enough; Model Franchise Bears Weight of World Series Inexperience

The Toronto Blue Jays arrive at Camden Yards for this weekend's series with the Baltimore Orioles having done many of the things they were supposed to have done. What they haven't done in this season's 53 games is win a pennant or a World Series and what they haven't done is shake the perception that they're baseball's premier underachievers, a team that wins and wins between April and September, then fades into the sunset when the playoffs begin.

Sports can be cruel and few teams have been stuck with crueler tags. The Blue Jays have won more games than any team in baseball the last nine seasons, but that's not what a lot of people remember.

They remember the Blue Jays blowing a 3-1 lead ...

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