1-0 Cards and Halliday as *mighty* Philly is only gonna get one Championship out of these great rosters.
Wolf are you going to attempt to attend any Card games in person?
What's with the quotes ? The goal of the MLB playoffs are to generate excitement and revenue (which they're ridiculously good at), not determine the best team in any year (which they're ridiculously bad at). The more they continue to add wild cards, and take priority away from a 162 game set of data and onto a 5 game set of data, the more cloudy the results get. This worked to the Phillies advantage in 2008, but has come to bite them in the butt the past two years, when they've clearly been the best team in the league.
Had the Phillies lost 2 1-run games out of a 5 game stretch in May, nobody gives a shit. But since it's October, it takes a great 102 win team and makes them "overrated".
Who was a better Cardinal team? The 105 win team that lost in the WS or the 83 win team that won it ? I think it's pretty obvious.
As Theo Epstein is famously quoted as saying, the goal of building a team isn't to build the best team in the league, it's to build as many 95 win teams as you can, because the only way to win the lottery is to get as many tickets as possible.
