With every win, expectations do get bigger but that's the game.
Playing on a team that was all but eliminated might sound like the pressure is off — less media attention (well, not in Boston this year), winning expectations are off, more acceptance of errors and other mistakes as part of the learning curve.
This winning expectation is the fuel that will drive you to persist until you successfully make that change.
They remain a side yet to mature, with their director of cricket, Ashley Giles, having invested in youth and been rewarded with individual performances if not the results that their supporters hoped for after three early wins raised expectations.
Ultimately, the two national titles that Meyer won raised expectations so high that the joy of winning could not surpass the despair of losing.
The Iowa caucuses are about winning the expectations game.
Before, most of the teams had a chance to win, and expectations were greater for each manager.
The collapse evidenced the Nets' immaturity, lack of cohesion on the court and apparent inability to win with expectations looming and the playoffs beckoning.
All of Chiefdom was suddenly in a fit, searching for answers to a question that, just a week ago, was near no one's mind: "So, are we kind of bad?" The problem for sports fans is that winning begets expectations, which, for all but one team per year, begets disappointment.
Ah, yes, there it is, from two years ago, when I wrote this sentence not after a Chiefs playoff loss but before it had even happened: "The problem for sports fans is that winning begets expectations, which, for all but one team per year, begets disappointment".
