I'm a St. Louis Cardinal lifer so, for most Major League
baseball fans out there, you probably assume I'm insufferable.
(You may be right.) Still, don't look for me to apologize that
we're in first place, have been for pretty much the entire
season, and boast the best record in baseball. The postseason is
upon us and, if all goes well tonight against Pittsburgh, we will
wrap up another NL Central Division title and head into the
postseason looking for yet another World Series championship. Yes,
life is good.
One of the reasons so many fans find us insufferable is our talk
of the "Cardinal Way." Most people draw this link back to
Branch Rickey, the pioneering baseball executive who first
developed the Cardinals' farm system before he went on to
engineer Jackie Robinson's entry into the Majors, thereby
breaking down baseball's color barrier.
