The Cardinals Win

Well they pulled it off, knocking out the Tigers in 5 games - the exact opposite of my prediction.

There's been a whole lotta talk over on Baseball Think Factory (aka Primer) about how the Cardinals aren't the best team in baseball, and how it's silly to take a seven game series and extrapolate the title 'Best in the World' from those results. After all, the Cards came out of the pathetic Central division in the equally weak National League, and barely broke .500

Well, duh.

In baseball anything can happen in a short series. If I had to pick one team to take the field and win for me on any given day, it wouldn't be the Cardinals.

Winning the World Series doesn't make them the best ever, or even the best around today.

It just makes them Champions.

When I had the pleasure of watching Buster Douglas wup up on Mike Tyson live on TV, I never once, even for a moment, thought Douglas was better than Tyson.

But there is something to be said for being able to see it through to the end and come out on top.

Michelle Kwan might be the best skater around, but her constant Olympic failures means someone else takes the gold - and will forever be remembered as a champion.

I won't fault a team that sticks it out and wins it all.

Kudos to the Cardinals. Still a boring, blase team whose manager is overrated . . .

But tonight they're all Champions.