It's stuck to me how many "last time we were good" stats are from 2009 because I had largely relegated that season to the nightmare corners of my memory. Then I remember that it was just the year after an amazing season, so of course some of that would carry over, plus it ended up just being a "normal" bad season as opposed to what was to come. Before the dark times. Before...the Empire. Hell it wasn't even that "bad" of a season. They had a [expletive] August/Sept IIRC, but they won as many games as the 06 Cardinals and only 2 fewer than the 07 team. They were in first place in early August. I was thinking the same thing looking over the numbers...until I got to that they finished the season 11.5 games out. The Cardinals just rocked it that year; Pujols had maybe his second best season. Yikes.