illiniguy

In 2004 they won 105 games in the regular season and got swept in the WS by a hot Boston team. What's your point? With the wild card(s) and expanded playoffs, baseball has become more like every other major sport. There are two seasons now. The regular season, and the playoff season. If the regular season is so important to you, just crown a champ based on the season schedule and then don't watch the playoffs. The point is, if they win in 2004 I wouldn't have liked it, but hats off to them. Many teams with 100+ wins do not win a WS as there are plenty of other good teams in the postseason. However, they are continuously the worst team in the postseason and somehow win it. I don't see why a fan of a rival team can't be pissed about it. Oh, I understand it. I even understand it from the Chicago football perspective. I'm a Bears fan, and my hatred of the Packers mirrors a lot of Cubs fan's feeling of the Cardinals. My point was that the crying about teams with poor(ish) records winning a championship doesn't hold much water with the expanded playoffs. We see it in every sport. The NY Giants were a wildcard team last year and beat a 15-1 Packers team (bless their hearts). I think we all know that it's about what teams are playing well, and what teams get some lucky bounces. That 2006 Cards team dealt with some crazy injuries and a bullpen that was unstable until Sept. By the time the playoffs started they were a pretty damn good club. My family are all Cubs fans, and they've adopted the idea that the Cardinals can win all they want for the next couple years, and hopefully they'll suck when the Cubs get things turned around in 2014. All I heard was that I live in Chicago, like the cardinals, but also the bears. Then I quit. Why not cheer for the rams? Don't win enough for you?

Cardinals were 20th in defensive efficiency and 19th in bullpen K% this year. Haha.

Mike Shaw had one. Did he? I'll be damned, I thought he just committed.

i like the one, "Hey Pujols. How ya like not being in the playoffs and sitting on your ass in piles of money in sunny Calif…" man, that sounds just horrible I hope that never happens to me. It won't.

They did their work in the twenty first round? Shut up and stroke out McCarver.

I love this fat piece of [expletive] Lynn is dealing. Dave Duncan effect, I mean sure he's dead but still.

He's better than Starlin, because he decided to be.

I can't see them losing to the giants. Sorry.

I want them all to catch AIDS. That's hate.

I love that Joe Buck gets to call the game. He adds so much to the experience.

At least it was a big leaguer this time.

You aren't even a cub fan at this point, you're just a logic troll that is on a cubs' board.

You are terrible at this. You should just not fear them quietly.

XRM to FSU. Someday we will win a press conference choice. I am sure of it.

this about the worst coaching job i have ever seen We should have been content with what we had in Zook. We are never going to be a football power.

Man KState really has a couple of programs on the upswing.....

They've never made the playoffs in a year we did. We are the only ones who can stop them. And if we ever are going to win it all you know we are going to have to go through them in the playoffs.

A Cardinals fan friend of mine posted a trolling Facebook status asking whether Reds, Cubs or Nationals fans were most disappointed this morning. I don't know the guy who replied, but his reply was perfect: "Baseball fans." They just don't get that were all tired of the same crap over and over. And why did it have to be the two bums that got the big hits?

My in laws are cardinal fans. They buy my kids cardinal stuff. It gets donated after we open it. You're a saint. I'd probably burn it, or give it to my dog. They're nice people, just don't get how much I hate the cardinals. Plus I'm not gonna burn it, I have people that work under me that love the free clothes. I'm happy to help them out. Are we the same person? My in-laws are Cardinals fans. We don't have kids yet, but they've been told that any Cardinals gear bought for my kids will be a waste. I have actually told them it will get burned. My wife left during the ninth inning last night. As a cardinal fan even she knew it was coming. Has to be a nice feeling.

My in laws are cardinal fans. They buy my kids cardinal stuff. It gets donated after we open it. You're a saint. I'd probably burn it, or give it to my dog. They're nice people, just don't get how much I hate the cardinals. Plus I'm not gonna burn it, I have people that work under me that love the free clothes. I'm happy to help them out.

My in laws are cardinal fans. They buy my kids cardinal stuff. It gets donated after we open it.

You forgot the part in between where they were granted an extra draft pick because they need it for competitive balance. They did? I thought they were one of the two "small market" teams that didn't. They didn't. But, you see the issue with them being one of the teams in the lottery after they won it all. Right?

Or Duke Or UNC Then duke thing is a joke. K is gonna walk on the Lance Thomas thing. Just like did on the Maggette thing, even though everyone else at the college level paid for the Myron Piggie issue. http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/story/20290116/will-coach-k-duke-skate-again-yes-unless-the-heat-stays-on-blue-devils

Yeah, it's so much worse living amongst so many ass-clown fans who have no clue how truly ridiculous their luck has been since 2006. That's why they are the best fans in baseball. Just ask them, they'll tell you. Coming out of school I had a job offer in St Louis and an offer in KC. I grew up 1.5 hours from St Louis and about 5.5 hours from KC. I had no friends, family, anybody in KC. My wife is from the same town as me. She has no ties to KC. We both have many ties to St Louis. When we sat down to decide what we were going to do I told her, "I love baseball. It is a huge part of my life. I can be happy day-to-day if the Cubs are losing. I cannot be happy day-to-day I they are losing and we live in St Louis." I truelly believe the Cardinals were the deciding factor in the job I chose. My company has an office in St Louis and they have asked me if I would rather live there. I told them I would rather find another job. Of course we are home this weekend and the douchebags around here are insufferable. I hear you, even here in KC I'm surrounded by cardinal fans. Most KU fans who don't like the Royals because they don't win enough. Sounds like the best fans in the word to me, not just baseball.

Yeah, it's so much worse living amongst so many ass-clown fans who have no clue how truly ridiculous their luck has been since 2006. That's why they are the best fans in baseball. Just ask them, they'll tell you.