A typical baseball season – and this holds true whether you’re a good team or a bad team – has wild swings of ups and downs. For no other team is this more true than an essentially .500 team – because while it ends at .500, very rarely does that team actually feel like a .500 team. Well unless you’ve been around the block a few times and know how a season like this goes. My point is that teams don’t usually trades wins and losses evenly. You’ll go through winning stretches and you’ll go through losing stretches.

So I feel kind of blessed to be writing at this particular moment, following back-to-back series wins against two of the better teams in the National League. On top of that, I get to feel pretty optimistic about this upcoming series, not because the Cardinals won series against th

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