In as much as any fan who had nothing to do with the success has a right to be smug, we have a right to be smug. This team is really, really good and is projected to win the division by a dozen games (literally, Fangraphs currently projects them for 97.1 wins, Cardinals second at 85.1). If some horrible combination of circumstances causes them to not make the playoffs, I was gonna be sad either way. Same for the 80% of the time that they'll get knocked out of the playoffs in a year like this. I'm not gonna be extra sad just because I was excited about the team early and now other fans will laugh at me.