People really aren’t paying much attention, but my St. Louis Cardinals are in the midst of one of the greatest choke jobs in the history of baseball. They lost again tonight, blowing a three-run lead in the 7th inning, and now they’ve lost seven in a row at the worst possible time. Meanwhile, the Astros won again and sit an unimaginable game and a half back of the Cards.

St. Louis has won more World Series than any National League team, but the cold reality is that the Cardinals have been to only one Series in the last 20 years and lost that one horribly. At this point, I’m almost rooting for them to fade away, because I can’t imagine how badly they will be beaten in the playoffs. All those losses this year to the Cubs in Chicago are really hanging over the Cards’ heads now, and it wouldn’t shock me at all to see them lose the division and finish as a .500 team.