Quite frankly, the National League is TERRIBLE right now. What a sorry, substandard bunch that is.

St. Louis in the playoffs??? They were 5 games over .500, I mean, really, and yet they lead the Mets 2-1 in the NLCS and the Mets had a better record than the Tigers!!! The Tigers knocked off Oakland in 4-straight and the A's won 10 more games this season than St. Louis and were in a far more competitive league and division (which wasn't even close to the incredible competitiveness of the AL Central) and the Tigers wiped em out, no sweat. Yet against their own crappy division teams, the Cards are UNDER .500!! The Tigers absolutely devoured the NL teams they faced this year. The NL has been swept in the last two World Series. Do the math, as they say, and realize that it is not in the Cards. While the Mets looked good on paper, as a team in the AL, they likely would not have made the playoffs. St. Louis definitely wouldn't and yet they lead the Mets whose ace pitcher in the World Series has 3-13 record this season and whose starter last night got the crapped knocked out of him--on those pitches that were anywhere close to the plate, I mean (and damned few were). The 2006 World Series should be in the bag for Detroit.