text: The other guy ahead of me is COMPLETELY incorrect.  The Cardinals have a STORIED past and have added to baseball's great history with many of baseball's greatest players and teams.  The media IS biased against the Cardinals but not because, as the other guy incorrectly stated, the Cardinals don't have a storied past.  They are biased against teams with smaller payrolls, unlike the Dodgers, Yankees and the like.  The East and West coast tend to shun the midwest and anyone else who doesn't buy the souls of the greatest players walking.  If I was as rich as some of those guys, I'd have a championship team right now.  Anybody can do that.  It takes a team like the Cardinals, though, to come out as heroes.  They will always have that special place in baseball - the hardworking Midwesterners.