Yes, immensely talented team but... Gooden and Strawberry had significant ... ahem... off-field problems. And for some reason they traded away Kevin Mitchell for virtually nothing (and Mitchell then went on to be NL MVP. in 1989)... And a couple of their stars like Keith Hernandez and Gary Carter were reaching their twilight playing years. As I mentioned above, they did go to the NLCS Game 7 in 1988. The nineties rolled around and the NL became the Braves domain.
Game 7 against the Dodgers was a disaster- swing at the first pitch EVERY time....i was getting furious...they never took a first pitch.