June 27, 2003
Cardinal Comeback
Josh Schulz of the St. Louis Cardinals blog responds to the previous post.
Just so we're clear here: It's now been 18 years since the Royals won a world series.
Since that world series the Cardinals have been to the playoffs 5 times, and made it to the world series once. They've been over .500 10 times in those 18 years.
It's been 9 years since the Royals were over 500. In the 18 years since that World Serires the Royals have been over .500 6 times. They havn't been back to the playoffs since.
The most games the Royals have won in a season is 92 in 1989.
The Cardinals won 97 last year, 93 the year before (2001), 95 in 2000, and 95 in 1987.
The Cardinals lost 92 games in 1990. The Royals lost 100 last year, 97 in 2001, 97 in 1999, and 94 in 1997.
You won a world series. Congrats! But in every other measure of team competency the Royals come out behind the Cardinals.
We're not conceited, we're convinced.
In the Cardinals defense, they are the Yankees of the National League. In fact the DBacks and Cardinals are the only NL teams with winning records against the Yankees in World Series play (the Cardinals have won 3 of 5 played against the Yankees). And with nine world Championships, the Cardinals have the most in the NL. Meanwhile, if memory serves, the Royals only beat the Yankees once in the post season.
Of course, if it gets around that the Cardinals are the Yankees of the NL, no one outside of St. Louis will like them anymore...
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