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Buttercup'd again: The false hope of the 2015 Angels

There's a reason why this prison is the worst hell on earth... Hope. Every man who has ventured here over the centuries has looked up to the light and imagined climbing to freedom. So easy... So simple... And like shipwrecked men turning to sea water from uncontrollable thirst, many have died trying. I learned here that there can be no true despair without hope.-Bane(The Dark Knight Rises)

The weekend is done, over with. The carcass of the Angels' withered and striated playoff hopes has been picked almost entirely clean by any and all Yankees, Rangers, Royals and Blue Jays vultures milling about, and the Twins have acted as MLB Dermestid beetles, making sure what little chance was left was cleaned down to the lily-white bone.