We play like crap against the poor teams anyways and fairly well against the better teams. This could be a blessing in disguise. That was the case in 05', 06' is a different year. Really? Seems like that's been the case throughout the Baker era. I don't look for much change this season. Even longer than that... I remember years where we would do really well against division leaders (ATL, SF, etc) and then get killed by the bottom feeders. Of course, they insisted the Cubs were better and just "played down to their level." Yeah, and got their butts handed to them often. This doesn't change the fact that the Cardinals get their yearly 6 with the Royals.