Attention, Cubs fans – new book on the 1908 season is just out. (I know because I wrote it). It’s called Crazy ’08 – How a cast of cranks, rogues, boneheads and magnates created the greatest year in baseball history (HarperCollins, $24.95; foreword by Robert Creamer). The Chicago Tribune reviewed it warmly on March 18, and Sports Illustrated liked it, too (the March Madness cover). Go to crazy08.com for more.

Did anyone watch the WGN news Friday night? I think they offered a mention that the Cardinals won the World Series...and that was about it.

I was hoping that was all I would hear about it. Yeah, I was wrong about that.

On Saturday, those Cardinal shirts were seen all over my Illinois city.
The local Walmart is featuring them - perhaps that's why.

I have seen some folks wearing Cubs shirts and hats this weekend, and I do tell those folks "yea Cubs!". I love seeing the little kids wearing Cubs logo stuff after the Cards won the World Series.

On Sunday the first person to greet me reminded me of the Cardinals victory. After the first service, the fellow who sits in front of me mentioned it too. (Those two have been trying to get me to convert to Cardinalism. I tell them its not in my Cub fan nature...)

SI.com's John Donovan, in discussing the Detroit Tigers, notes something I find disturbing:

In the 11 years of the wild-card era there have been 17 teams that have won 100 or more games. Only five of them made it to the World Series (the 1995 Indians, '98 Yankees, '99 Braves, 2003 Yankees and '04 Cardinals), and only one -- the '98 Yanks -- won it.

Given this, it would be a grave mistake for baseball to ever consider adding more rounds to the playoffs. The results are simply too random.