Records are powerful things.
In doing so, they buried the hatchet, or more precisely, the tomahawk chop for another year. For all of his success in the regular season, Greg Maddux hit a dry spell in the playoffs that seems like the embodiment of the fall frustrations of a team that has won 10 consecutive division titles but has just one World Series trophy to show for it. Not all records will stand forever. Most of them won't. To be sure, there are those that once seemed unbreakable, but are now only faint memories.