Cardinals Win! Cardinals Win!
The St. Louis Cardinals shocked about 90% of the world and beat the Detroit Tigers in only five games! I'll let one of the Redbird fans around here tell you more about it, but here's a snippet from an article by Jayson Stark that tells just how unbelievable it is.
(And just know that I was cheering for them. I didn't know if I could do it after rooting against them all these years but I am more than happy that an NL team finally did it. I'm just not looking forward to hearing comments from Curry like, "Where's your World Series Ring?")
ST. LOUIS -- Teams that win 83 games are supposed to spend the last week of October tackling those nasty doglegs left -- not winning the World Series.
Teams that have worse records after the All-Star break than the Pirates aren't supposed to spend the last week of October winning the World Series.
Teams that let 8½-game September leads turn into half-game September leads aren't supposed to win the World Series.
Teams that have the 13th-best record in baseball aren't supposed to win the World Series.
Teams that don't figure out who the closer is until Sept. 27 aren't supposed to win the World Series.
But now try and tell that to the St. Louis Cardinals, the best 83-win team in the history of baseball.
Yeah, tell it to the Cardinals, the improbable champions of America's most improbable sport.
They won that World Series they were never supposed to play in Friday night, on an October evening that felt more suitable for the Iditarod than for baseball.
They won a World Series with a starting pitcher (Jeff Weaver) who got dumped by his previous team to make room in the rotation for his own brother.
They won a World Series with a Series MVP (David Eckstein) who got non-tendered less than two years ago, with a closer (Adam Wainwright) who was shocked to even find himself in the big leagues on Opening Day, with a catcher (Yadier Molina) who had the lowest regular-season batting average (.216) of any World Series starter in more than 20 years.
