The wisdom of sports prognosticators. Note that not a single one predicted a series win by either of the two teams playing tonight.

I guess it's the old saying about the race to the swiftest, and battle to the strongest, and the way to bet. Or maybe it's just poor judges of who is swift and strong.

And now, of course, the conventional wisdom is a Tiger sweep, which makes me a little nervous. I suspect that the Cards will put up a good fight. But still, what a difference a few weeks makes. And I got my wish for a rematch from 1968 (not to mention 1934, which also went seven games).

The problem is that even the best baseball teams rarely win much more than 60% of the time (97 wins in the regular season). My Plan (tm) to make it more likely that the best team wins in the playoffs is to go back to a 154 game regular season (since the steroid era invalidated most records anyway), and play three rounds of best of 9 in the playoffs.