LAME WORLD SERIES
Baseball is getting a little watered down when two teams that limp into the playoffs wind up in the big series. Neither would have even made the playoffs under the old format. There seems to be a lot of backslapping about how we have a different winner each year and that revenue sharing is working, but these games are so forgettable. The wild card lets any team that gets hot at the right time into the series and that cheapens the 162 game schedule. The Tigers finished poorly, got hot for two series, and then played like an also ran. LaRussa, who had failed to win the World Series with the four 100 win teams he managed, was able to coast to victory against a team that shouldn't have been there.
I thought the Tigers showed a lot of spirit beating the Yankees and what not, but were the Cardinals the best team in 2006?
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It's not always the best team that wins it all. It's great when the dominant team does win it all because they end up being remembered as one of the all-time great teams and often end up with a cool nickname like Murderer's Row, Big Red Machine, or Lumber Company.
Some years the best picture is The Godfather and some years it is Gandhi. There are degrees of greatness. St Louis Cardinals '06 is likely the least great championship team of all time but they still make the list. In 100 years, they will be notable for Pujols and if you dig real deep you will discover that Carpenter was the best pitcher in the NL at the time.
Not every World Series can be a classic and this one was certainly forgettable but the Cards are the champs when all is said and done and we begin to look forward to next season.
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