If you're following baseball at all, then you're probably aware the your St. Louis Cardinals are in the process of imploding. Radio talk show hosts and the national media are acting as though the apocolypse is happening, but I think most fans of the Cardinals saw this coming. Well, maybe not on this level, but the team has been so horrible this year that we never expected anything anyway, and a playoff berth was just going to mean a quick playoff exit.
So I think the general attitude of Cardinal fans is "so what".
You see, we expect great things from our Cardinals teams, and the playoff birth without a World Series isn't much to celebrate. And I think most people assume that the National League team is going to get slaughtered in the World Series anyway. So you take the expectation that they were either going to lose in the divisional series or the World Series, add that to the fact that those loses actually hurt a little bit more, factor in the fact that Cardinal fans are completely spoiled on winning, and the week-early exit isn't anything worth getting upset over.
In fact, I think it's worth celebrating, which is why I'm wearing a Cardinals cap with a crazy through-the-head arrow right now.
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