We gotta get out of this mindset of “You’re only contending if you’re OBVIOUSLY contending.”
Teams catch fire all the time unexpectedly just by putting their best foot forward.
You don’t have to have an obvious 15-2/14-3 roster destined for HFA to be “contending.”
Give your all to field the best team possible, and see where it takes you.
This isn’t directed at you yourself, but I feel sometimes like our only SB team coming on the heels of a 13-0 start has given people a never-ending bad impression of what a contending team has to look like.