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It's going to be so awesome when the Tigers pitching staff can't find the strike zone all te sudden.

Lincecum is all over the place. Wainwright was pinpoint. 3-1 here we come.

And Granderson. Yeah I don't get it, isn't Joe a Northwestern graduate? How hasn't he thought this all out better? Worse, he has a BS in Industrial Engineering-- you know, the study of optimizing processes. Fair or not, industrial engineers are the jokes of any engineering department.

I'm encouraged that multiple people inside the organization are singing Sveum's praises. Soriano before. Kasper now.

Um, 5? Whoa. Shouldn't go off memory. Thought they only played the Yankees once in the World Series and thought the two against the Twins and Blue Jays were before the streak. My bad.

I just feel like many people in Illinois cherry picked the Cardinals because they are nearby and win a lot. I find it rather annoying. It's ok if you don't. A lot of people in Southern Illinois probably picked the Cardinals because of proximity. I think that is much more of a factor than where the state lines are, or some notion that because you live in a state it means you have to be a fan of teams within it. If some yokel from Belleville or Centralia or something is a Cards fan, I don't the controversy. Me either, but why the hell did they do that only in baseball? Why not football also? I understand where you're coming from, Illini, because I know plenty of Chiefs/Cardinals fans and Bears/Cardinals fans and a fair amount of Packers/Cardinals fans Cowboys/Cardinals fans and 49ers/Cardinals fans. What you have to understand is that many people my age (24) and older had favorite football teams before the Rams came into town. Now, if you jumped on the "bob-and-weave" bandwagon and then jumped back to your team when the wheels came off, I think that's weak. And many have done that. But I do think there is something to what Illini is saying. For instance, Mizzou has zero national championships in anything. The fan support is just not there. There are way too many fans of Kentucky, Kansas, UNC, Duke and all the SEC schools (because everybody thinks they're "southern"). In general, Cardinals fans are front runners outside of their support for the Cardinals. But to say that MET is one because he likes the Bears and Cardinals is hard to support.

If you want predictability, love soccer. The Cardinals are a testament to the value of bullet proof bullpens (especially high strike out relievers), good defense and avoiding outs in the playoffs. That's pretty much the magic postseason formula. Get in, and have those three things happen. You can throw 2006 out. That was an absolute crazy fluke. That team was hot garbage. Not even close.

I want Rex Hudler and Hawk Harrelson to be a broadcast team one day. That would be awful, but it would be funny to have Mr Positive and Mr Negative in the same booth.

All of this is true. There is still nothing wrong with being pissed about it.

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.

You embody everything I hate about Cubs fans in one paragraph. Congratulations. So you don't hate the guys who show up to the bleachers just to party, the "We're cursed!" fans, the "Why didn't we sign Pujols or Fielder?" crowd, the "We will never win" crowd? None of that was included in that paragraph. For those of us who live in Missouri we can complain all we want about sub-championship Cardinals teams winning multiple championships in short periods of time. It is extremely irritating and also the truth. For those who don't live here, maybe you need a lesson on why we feel the amount of hatred towards them that we do. 1. Their fanbase is more interested in BEATING THE OTHER TEAM than they are about WINNING. I believe there is a huge difference. 2. Their media (newspaper, radio, TV) has made it a point to make sure everybody in the world knows A) the Cardinals are God's gift to man and B) the Cubs are, have been and always will be the scum of the earth and it is your job as a Cardinals fan to make sure they know this. I do not remember Harry that much, but Bob Brenly is the only Cubs announcers I have ever known to make negative "meatball" comments towards the Cardinals and it is nowhere near the level coming from the other direction. It is literally every radio and probably every other TV broadcast whether the Cardinals are playing the Cubs or not. 3. Even the Busch Stadium PA announcer gets in on the fun when the Cubs are in town. The way the Cardinals as an organization treat the Cubs organization is nothing short of rude and disrespectful. The fans are one thing. The organization egging it on from their scoreboard, PA booth, radio booth and TV booth is quite another thing. I believe if there is one place where a certain organization could possibly be treated worse would be the Mets when they go to Philadelphia. That is it. I don't know about you, but this has been an amazing postseason. I'd like to enjoy it as a baseball fan without another mediocre Cardinals team winning the whole thing. The 162-game season is supposed to mean something in baseball. Mainly by the design of their front office they find themselves in these situations year after year. I will admit that. Hats off to them. But, I can be pissed when them putting themselves in those situations constantly correlates into postseason series victories due in part to other teams not showing up and/or collapsing. The Braves dominated 14 seasons and only got to 2 World Series. The Yankees won 4 of 5, but they did so with a budget double that of their competitors. If it makes you feel like a more mature person that the Cardinals winning in historically ridiculous ways doesn't piss you off, congratulations. Once is enough. Twice is too much. Three is just insane.

In 2006, 2011 and 2012 (they're going to win, so lets just include it) the Cardinals won the WS with records worse than or equal to teams that did not make the postseason. They finished 13th, tied for 8th (due to the 2 biggest collapses in September history they were not 10th) and tied for 11th. Disgusting.

Dangit! I forgot that if the Cardinals don't go to the WS, then Ryan Theriot will.

So, are the Cardinals going to come back from down 3-0, or just have a dramatic 10-run 9th down 9 in Game 7, or will MLB step in and decide the LCS runner-up gets a one-game playoff vs the LCS winner to win the pennant?

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.

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. I'm from SE MO. There are just many Cardinals/Kansas and Cardinals/Kentucky fans here as there are Cardinals/Mizzou. It's disgusting. Also, very few people claim the Rams. There are tons of Packers, Bears, Cowboys fans down here. I'm convinced if the Browns stayed and the Cardinals left that half of the people down here would be Yankees fans.

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.

We could have had an LCS with the following WS/LCS appearance droughts: CIN (90/90) WAS (Infinite/Infinite) BAL (83/83) OAK (90/91) I have never seen any of these teams in an LCS as I was 3 when the A's last made one in '91. Instead we get the following WS/LCS droughts: STL (11/11) NYY (09/09) DET (06/11) SF (10/10)

I'm glad to see everybody on here has been contemplating the same seemingly irrational thoughts that I have all night. The whole Cardinals team dying, higher beings getting involved, some sort of satanic involvement. Makes me feel completely normal again. Was starting to get worried. On a side note, I do love how many fans of other teams are acknowledging hatred towards these ridiculous circumstances. I'm sure at this point the fan bases that have new hate towards St Louis are: ATL, MIL, TEX, CIN, PIT, LA, ATL, ATL, WAS. Soon you can add SF and DET to the list too. I'm expecting when they ever do get eliminated (2018?) the number of fans showing outward jubilation will be extremely high.

If the A's, O's and Nats win their series this will be the best non-Cubs postseason ever!

Lohse will pitch past 9 if it's still 1-1.

I really don't understand this.

Nationals will finish this game with 1 run.

Washington error leads to St Louis run.

You realize they built a new Busch Stadium recently right? You realize the stench comes from the dumpsters, right? Which they have /had at both stadiums. Maybe I should have said "places". I thought that was obvious.