Back in the day, I was an almost daily viewer of Braves baseball on TBS. It was a habit, and they were so awful, if they won a game it was an event. I think they were 62-100 one year, they were so bad Ted Turner tried to manage them for one game. I enjoyed it, it was a pasttime, national and all. Then came 1991 and things got really tense.
They started off 13-0, and then lost 5 straight. Then Sid Bream had "The Slide" and they won the NLCS.
It was almost more fun when they were awful and hapless, like being a Kansas football fan, or UGA bball fan.
Sid Bream is a fine fellow, BTW.