I have a feeling because your asking that the Cubs are both of these. But if I didn't get that feeling, my guesses would be 1. Cardinals and 2. Pirates Cubs and Cubs is the answer.
Because if anything deserves to follow up the idiotic "La Stella has no business being on the roster" rhetoric, it's the "Ross has no business being on the roster" rhetoric.
Sure, it doesn't always reward the best teams or put the best teams in the best positions to win, but no playoff does. If the best team winning is all you want, then just hand a trophy to the Cardinals and be done with it.
looking at the records of all of these teams and then seeing the cubs as a road team in the wild card game makes me mildly irate. Just because the 95-67 Royals have home field advantage throughout the playoffs and the 97-65 Cubs can't have home field advantage in any round?
Also, I know the Cards stopped trying a week ago, but the Cubs ended the season just 3 games out of first place, which is the closest they'd been since May.
It's probably meaningless, but I envision the Pirates home crowd like the Cubs crowd in 2008. Just waiting for something bad to happen. Just score 3 runs and take it from there.