If I found one thing frustrating on the blog this season, it was the tension and in-fighting between the self-labeled "realists" and the "optimists".
I hope that those "realists" can now acknowledge that, in fact, their point of view was no more realistic than anybody else's. In fact, the "realistic" point of view is looking more and more like a half-empty, pessimistic one. The pie-in-the-sky optimists have been proven right, at least so far.
I think there's a lesson here: we should never believe that our own point of view is the only one with any validity. We should try to have respect for all viewpoints, and should accept that absolutely nothing is a guarantee. If we all could have kept that perspective, this probably would have been a lot smoother season for all of us.
(This isn't an endorsement of the "optimist" point of view, by the way. People can believe whatever they want about the team. However, it's the labeling of others -- especially in terms of those self-labeling themselves as the only "realistic" voices -- that is unacceptable to me.)