Is this a lame attempt to say something sensational to try to get a bunch of people talking about the site/post? (ala the doopey talking heads on ESPN)? If so congrats; way to take a site based on actual analysis and observation and to reduce it to personal biases and silly ways to subjectively explain a result you didn’t like.
I got it, lets blame it on the friggen weather…you should be a FOX announcer, lets hear some of your other theories when you are sitting with McCarver.

I will, in fact, maintain that the 2006 Cardinals were “better” than the 2006 Tigers *in the World Series*. That week, they were better.

There’s no other way to decide which team was better. You could say the Tigers were more talented, won more games, scored more runs, etc. But no one’s giving a diamond-encrusted ring to the team with the best pythagorean W-L.

Whining about how some team just “lucked out” and won ignores the fact that a lot of a baseball is luck. Because of that, we’ll never *really* know whether any team is better than any other, because there are *always* mitigating factors. When it comes down to it, you have to win the games.

RJ ANDERSON, YOU SUCK!

“That’s why they play the games, dude… when one team actually wins, you no longer get to say the other team is “better.””

is just flat-out wrong, dude. Winning a 7-game series against a team does not mean the winner is a “better” team. It’s a small sample. Is this really not something you’re familiar with? If you tell me the 2006 Cardinals were a “better” team than the 2006 Tigers, then you simply don’t know anything about baseball. They play the games because someone needs to be crowned a champion, and because having a head-to-head series to decide that is much more exciting than giving it to the team with the best record.

Seriously, lighten up about the “stole” comment. I think it was meant to be a joke.

Whats that about? Along with everything that everyone said above me, I’d just like to reiterate that the Phillies won the series in 5 games. That’s not a fluke. C’mon, R.J. You’re better than that.

Plus, his original comment is even stupider than that — he said the Phillies stole it *with an assist from Mother Nature.* In other words, because of the rain-delayed Game 5. When the Rays were already down 3-1. Fail.

Whatever. The “steal” comment aside, this is still one of the dumber articles I’ve ever read on this site. What was all that data about WS games supposed to prove? “Some games are blowouts, some are close, some are somewhere in between. Where’s my Pulitzer??”