Vigilante Sports

Man, I guess I couldn’t have been more wrong. I suppose stranger things have happened. The St. Louis Cardinals won the World Series friday night. Yuck. A Cubs fan could never be happy about that, but Will over at Deadspin (a Cardinals fan) tried to convince us with great post about baseball, and family. However, I’m still pissed that the Cardinals won it.

My theory about a weak Cardinals pitching staff was a little off. I was definitely suprised by the way Anthony Reyes pitched. Everyone knew that Chris Carpenter would pitch well, he definitely did. Even in the one game that the Cardinals lost, Jeff Weaver pitched pretty well.

On the other hand (let’s not talk about Kenny Rogers, ok?), the Tigers totally blew it. What happened? A team that committed 106 errors in the regular season (.65 errors a game) saw that stat ballon up to 8 errors (1.6 errors per game) in 5 World Series games. Most of the errors led to runs. Was the time inbetween the ALCS and the World Series to blame for this? I have a hard time thinking that would do it. Jim Leyland, a supposed old school manager should have had his team ready to play. There shouldn’t have been room for that rust to set in. So I have to blame both Jim Leyland and the youth of the team. They definitely have some veteran leadership, but their pitching staff is so young. And the pitchers were to blame for a lot of the errors.

I don’t really know how to make sense of this. The Cardinals limped into the post season, had been beaten up all year, and yet they come into the World Series and got the job done. I definitely have to commend Tony LaRussa for piecing together a team to go out and knock off two of the toughest teams this post season (the Mets and the Tigers). I for one didn’t think they were up for it. My congratulations go out, through gritted teeth, to all Cardinal fans, and the city of St. Louis. Ugh… last year the White Sox, and now the Cardinals. If Ohio State wins the National Championship, or the Packers somehow win the Super Bowl I might just have to stop watching sports all together.

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