You see it in the way teams resist establishing goals too high to avoid creating pressure that builds quicker than ever in our relatively new win-or-else world. You see it in how many of Chicago’s teams have opted to start from scratch rather than risk being mired in mediocrity no longer tolerated by this generation of sports media and fans. You hear it in the polarizing playoffs-or-bust rhetoric on sports-talk radio and television that has turned virtually every season into a pass-fail exercise for teams no longer allowed to compete in the middle ground.