Because they were the 3 droughts of epic proportions. Nobody cares about the Giants not winning in 50 some years, people knew who Willie Mays was. All the Cubs, Red Sox, and White Sox guys were dead or banned Doesn't explain why you used a 20 year window, mentioned three teams and an 8-0 record. It's two teams and it all took place within the last 6 years. Cause 20 sounded better but 25 included Red Sox losses 24 would have sounded really badass. Round numbers only you should know that. Anyways, despite my numerous mistakes, my point still stands, pressure don't mean [expletive] if you're good and lucky. If the Cubs had the Cardinals postseason last year, everyone would blame it on too much pressure. If the Cubs were the Mariners under Lou, everyone would blame it on pressure. It makes a nice "baseball is a mystical game that nobody can understand" story after the fact, but that's all it is a story, to try and make something more out of it than it was. A few teams who weren't that good to begin with ('89, 98, '07), a team that got hot and beat a team they shouldn't have, only to get cold and lose to a team they shouldn't have ('03), and a couple teams that went cold at the wrong time to inferior teams ('84, '08) OH THE PRESSURE!!