Rieu, screw you! Keith Law, screw you more! Well, I mean hey -- they've got a point. Even though the Cards didn't deserve it last year and became champions. However, I would point out that none of these other NL contenders are really screaming "great team" to me either. The entire NL is pretty flawed when you think of it. Actually, when you really think of it -- there's no truly great powerhouse team in all of baseball, not even in the AL. Some of the great teams of yore would probably just rape every team in the league right now, even the Yanks and BoSox. We deserve to be in though. Remember the Padres a couple years ago when they made it in with a losing record? They had 82 wins. Two games above .500.