The Cardinals won the World Series, thus making my uncle Mike and my friend David happy. They also became the World Series winner with the worst regular-season record in history (beating out the 1987 Twins), although they’re only the second-worst team to ever make it to the Series (behind the 1973 Mets).
Congratulations to them! They did just about everything right, and took advantage of several mistakes by the Detroit Tigers. Despite this, it was a good series with 3 of the 5 games decided by 1 or 2 runs. The Cards’ surprisingly strong pitching kept them in position to take advantage of Detroit’s errors.
And now it’s the “long dark time”, as Syd likes to say. T.S. puts it succinctly as well.
I just say: Four months ’til spring training!
Cynthia and I have hockey to keep us entertained through the winter months. Now if the Sharks can figure out which end of the stick to use…