*** Official St Louis Cardinals to the 2006 World Series Thread ***

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good factual counterargument

let's see...Carp is the defending NL cy young and a favorite to go back-2-back

Suppan was the best pitcher in the NL during the 2nd half.

The surprise was Jeff Weaver returned to his pre-Yankee form.

I had previously argued that everyone was underrating Suppan and the Cards had the #1 and #3 starter in every series. That seemed to be accepted. The Weaver surprise made the run very plausible.