Seven is indeed sweeter than six

Now that was a baseball game! In situations like the Cardinals were in, down to their last strike, facing imminent doom, I never in a million years expected them to come back. And they wound up doing it TWICE. Now, whenever they roll the highlight package of the greatest Game 6’s in history, this will be among them. Just an incredible game. To think it began with such a horrible display of defense though...

And so it comes down to a Game 7, the most fitting way for the series to end. Lost in all the majesty and glamor about the World Series is that it’s very much like the Super Bowl in that it’s very, very, very rarely competitive. (Yeah, the recent Super Bowls have been great. The first 30 years or so? Horrendous. And coming into this year, the last seven teams to lose in the World Series had five wins between them. The math’s irrefutable.) It’s been ten years since there was a great World Series, and nine since there was a very good one. Yesterday’s instant classic pushed Cardinals-Rangers into the second category. Sure, it would have been a good series had it ended on Josh Hamilton’s 2-run bomb. But where’s the fun in that? Give me the all-for-nothing, stakes-raised, ultimate challenge that the very mention of a Game 7 evokes. It’s been a fun series -- now it can be a legendary one.