God is a Cardinals fan

The Braves (94 wins) are finished for the year

God is a Cardinals fan. No doubt about it.

In 2006 they had a crappy .500ish team that somehow managed to make the playoffs in a pathetic division, then rode that all the way to their World Series rings.

Last year - well, you saw what they did last year. They seemed to have no chance at the post-season when they were a crappy .500ish 74-67, but they made the playoffs by finishing 16-5. Then they came back after being down two games to one against the Phillies, even defeating Halladay in the final game. Then they came back after being down 3 games to 2 against the Rangers, even though they were losing the 6th game 7-4 in the bottom of the 8th.

And this year. They were huffing and puffing along as a crappy .500ish team as usual (76-70), but they made the playoffs again by finishing 12-4 while other teams conveniently faded. Then they received the benefit of three big errors from the best fielding team in the league, and then they ended up on the right side of a bad move by the umps.

I always thought they were named the Cardinals after the pretty red birds, but it must be after the princes of the church. They are the Lord's anointed.

There's only one flaw in my theory about God being a Cardinals fan: why doesn't the Big Guy follow them in the first 140 games of the season? I have an answer.

(1) Of all mankind's systems of worship, it was the ancient Vikings who had the one true religion. Odin is God.

(2) Stan Lee was right about Odin needing the Odin-sleep.

(3) Odin/God takes the Odin-sleep at the beginning of the baseball season and sets the alarm for September.