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[langostino]

OT: check your post roni

you said:
"they would have to be considered one of the worst teams ever to win the Series"

not: "this would have to be considered one of the worst World Series performances by a top caliber team, enabling an inferior team to walk home with the trophy nearly by default."

or even: "this would have to be considered one of the bigger choke jobs by a 1st-rate team making errors at a rate of more than 5 times the rate they did during the regular season, losing to the least winning team ever to record a World Series win"

No need for you to spew your Coke. The 2006 Cardinals aren't in the same class as the 2006 Tigers, but if you'll read my post again, I agreed right from the start with the new proposition that you've revised to -- they were the better team over this 5 game stretch (primarily because, as you pointed out, the Tigers gagged up a storm) and they deserve the spoils of victory. And I don't know anyone who would argue with your characterization that the Tigers were "the worse [team] in the Series".

In fact, saying the Tigers were worse than the Cardinals, probably is about as apt a way to describe this most unscintillating of World Series as any.

Wonder how much FOX lost on the debacle. I believe this was far and away the worst World Series ever for broadcast ratings. Little wonder.

p.s. regarding your attempt to dismiss the glaringly obvious -- that the 2006 Cardinals are if not the worst ever, unquestionably one of the handful of worst teams ever to get to a World Series, much less win one, it's not like it's one or two commentators. In fact, if you can find a single commentator with any knowledge of the game who's arguing that's NOT the case, I'd be quite surprised.