How Bad Were The Worst World Series Champions?

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  • Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
  • In an inconsistent year full of losing and winning streaks and injuries, the Cardinals somehow made the playoffs at 83-79 and managed to win the World Series. Beating the Padres in the NLDS, beating the Mets in 7 games in the NLCS despite Endy Chavez incredible catch, then beating the Tigers in the World Series in 5 games. They had all-stars like Albert Pujols, Scott Rolen, Jim Edmonds, and Chris Carpenter while players like David Eckstein, Jeff Weaver, and Jeff Suppan stepped up in the playoffs which led to an improbable run to the World Series. But are they the worst World Series Champions?
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  • @mrmacross
    @mrmacross 4 месяца назад +106

    The 1987 Twins are the worst WS winners. They got into the playoffs courtesy of a very weak AL West and incredibly leveraging their home field advantage. They had the 5th best record in the AL (when only two teams qualified). To their credit, they beat Detroit twice at Detroit in the ALCS, but they couldn't win any in STL. Back then, the AL and NL alternated home field advantage, and 1987 was the AL's year.
    In fact, all year, the Twins only won 31 road games, regular season and playoffs combined. They even had a negative run differential.

    • @fredcasdensworld
      @fredcasdensworld 4 месяца назад +9

      But guess what... all that matters is they won

    • @mrmacross
      @mrmacross 4 месяца назад +4

      ​@fredcasdensworld true, but irrelevant when ranking World Series champs.
      Edit: other than that they qualified for the list, of course.

    • @alexvoigt6946
      @alexvoigt6946 4 месяца назад +7

      Similar to the ‘06 Cards, that ‘87 Twins squad was extremely top heavy. They had 4 guys bash 28+ homers, a future HOFer in Puckett and guys like Gaetti and Hrbek who had excellent careers…but they also didn’t have a serviceable leadoff hitter and the bottom of their order was a dead zone. They also had an excellent 1-2 punch in their starting rotation with Viola and Blyleven and a great closer in Reardon…but they didn’t have any other real starter and their bullpen was in shambles by the end of the season.

    • @dgrblue4162
      @dgrblue4162 4 месяца назад +3

      88 Dodgers played with backup players and Kirk Gibson, who was named MVP with a stat line of .290/.377/.483. He had 25 HR 76RBI 31 SB, 25 Doubles and never made an all-star team

    • @alexvoigt6946
      @alexvoigt6946 4 месяца назад +1

      @@dgrblue4162 ‘88 Dodgers were definitely thin on offense, but they weren’t all bench players around Gibson. Mike Marshall was a serviceable power hitter and Steve Sax was a multi-time All Star at 2nd base. Also they had one of the best pitching staffs in the league (2nd in NL in ERA) with Hershisher winning the Cy Young, 2 very good starters behind him (Leary and Belcher combined for 29 wins and a sub-3 ERA) and Pena/Howell were very good in the bullpen.

  • @andrewrau7516
    @andrewrau7516 4 месяца назад +151

    I will point out ironically, that both that Cardinals team AND the 87 Twins BOTH beat a heavily favored Tigers team. 87 Twins upset a 98 win Tigers team in the ALCS.....and the 06 Cardinals beat a 95 win Tigers team.

    • @kibitznec700
      @kibitznec700 4 месяца назад +2

      Y entonces, in what form eso influye en qie those bultos became ws chomps?

    • @kibitznec700
      @kibitznec700 4 месяца назад +1

      Irrelevante

    • @clarkvaughan
      @clarkvaughan 4 месяца назад +9

      Right. I went from a heartbroken teenager to a disillusioned adult. Thanks.

    • @sammagni3289
      @sammagni3289 4 месяца назад +2

      Thanks for reminding me

    • @internalwhack9638
      @internalwhack9638 4 месяца назад +1

      you’re also forgetting the 2011 cardinals

  • @peterz22thomas5
    @peterz22thomas5 4 месяца назад +39

    Tigers fan here. We lost to the worst AL winner in the ALCS in 1987 and the worst NL winner in the '06 WS. Good times.

    • @bmac4
      @bmac4 4 месяца назад +2

      Pulling for your guys against the Yankees at least!

    • @peterskrobola8753
      @peterskrobola8753 4 месяца назад +1

      @@bmac4Need to beat Cleveland first

    • @NickyD
      @NickyD 3 месяца назад +3

      and got sweeped by the giants in the WS

    • @peterskrobola8753
      @peterskrobola8753 3 месяца назад

      @@NickyD That was a dynasty so we can be forgiven to some extent.

    • @grimkaizer8417
      @grimkaizer8417 3 месяца назад

      You beat the best AL team in the wildcard though, so standard rules don't apply to the Tigers

  • @jordaninktv6538
    @jordaninktv6538 4 месяца назад +41

    As a HUGE fan of the Cardinals that year, I can tell you injuries and under-performance were the main two factors in a huge drop-off from 2004/2005 to 2006. I also agree that without Pujols, that team does not come close to even SNIFFING the postseason.
    One minor note though, Chris Carpenter did not pitch NLDS game four on short rest. The NLDS that year had a bit of a weird schedule as there was an off day between games one and two despite no travel being needed as both games were played in San Diego.

    • @harrydoyle1408
      @harrydoyle1408 4 месяца назад +1

      I don't think people give Weaver credit for his NLDS start in San Diego. 6 innings of 2 hit shutout ball and turned it over to the red hot bullpen for the win.

  • @viemarch3516
    @viemarch3516 4 месяца назад +31

    A prime Pujols vs AL RoY Verlander, resulted in one of the most boring WS of all times.

  • @Lonestarr022
    @Lonestarr022 3 месяца назад +3

    Anthony Reyes was 5-8 in 2006. He started Game 1 Of The World Series, and beat Verlander.

  • @robbie2671
    @robbie2671 4 месяца назад +13

    enough to make a grown man cry. it was special seeing such a young team win at the new stadium

  • @Zcp105
    @Zcp105 4 месяца назад +15

    I don't think it's a mystery at all why the 06 Cardinals won. While the roster was a lot different than 04 and 05, the core group was still there. More importantly, of those three seasons, 06 was the only one where all three members of the MV3 AND Chris Carpenter were healthy and on the roster for the playoffs. The 06 Cardinals were not a bad team that got hot. They were a very good team that was injured most of the season, until the end.

    • @BobbyBoucher228
      @BobbyBoucher228 4 месяца назад +2

      Perfectly said

    • @Compucles
      @Compucles 3 месяца назад +1

      The pitching still wasn't that good, at least in the regular season. They had Carpenter, Wainwright, Mulder and Isringhausen until the latter two got hurt, a decent Suppan, and not much else.

    • @Zcp105
      @Zcp105 3 месяца назад +4

      @@Compucles I'd agree with that. The starting rotation was never anything special in the Walt Jocketty era, but the 06 rotation did have guys step up in the playoffs. Chris Carpenter was a true #1. Jeff Suppan and Jeff Weaver both came up in big games, not to mention Anthony Reyes having the game of his life in Game 1 of the WS.

    • @sirjer73
      @sirjer73 3 месяца назад +2

      ​@Zcp105 Dave Duncan was a wizard!!! Also if Izzy stayed healthy we mightve lossed!!!

    • @sirjer73
      @sirjer73 3 месяца назад +1

      losted

  • @philipalt9560
    @philipalt9560 4 месяца назад +3

    The record of the 2006 Cardinals was somewhat misleading. They had more bumps in the road than the previous two seasons, but they also had a ton of injuries. Once they got relatively healthy for the playoffs, it was much better than an 83 win team, and they still had the leadership from the two previous seasons where they won a combined 205 regular season games. I will say that the 2006 Cardinals were fortunate that the Astros didn’t get their act together until the last two weeks, and it wasn’t quite good enough to catch the Cardinals. I was worried we’d blow the division, but we hung on and it was a different team in October.

  • @clarenceboddicker1162
    @clarenceboddicker1162 4 месяца назад +28

    From 2000-2015 the cardinals had nine teams that won more than their 90 win 2011 team. They had 15 seasons with better records than 2006.
    It’s not our fault that two of our lesser teams from that era won the World Series. They qualified. We all know the rules going in

    • @Compucles
      @Compucles 3 месяца назад +2

      They had a worse record in 2007 (only team below .500 from 2000-2022), so it was only 14 seasons with better records in that timeframe.

  • @isaacgraham5727
    @isaacgraham5727 3 месяца назад +2

    I don’t think it can be overstated how ridiculously good that 04-06 era of Cardinals teams really were. That core of Pujols/Rolen/Edmonds was so incredibly strong, I mean…. All three of those guys are elite players both offensively and defensively, and while Edmonds might have just started his decline in 2006, Rolen was still posting a WAR of 5.9 and Pujols’ 8.5, well…. He was in the second year of a 6-year-long streak where he would lead the NL in WAR.
    Anyway, yes they had a crappy starting pitching staff outside of Carpenter, but my point is that the basic core of the team were the same guys who won 105 games in 2004 and 100 games in 2005. They had a ton of injuries in 2006 and didn’t get totally healthy and clicking on all cylinders until the end of the postseason. This meant they were both unusually rested, and pressure was finally off a bit because for the first time in 2 years they didn’t have the best record in the major leagues and have the expectation that anything but a WS win is a failure.

  • @luke-i1w
    @luke-i1w 4 месяца назад +6

    Any team with a prime Albert Pujols isn't the worst of anything.

  • @Korijenkins1414
    @Korijenkins1414 3 месяца назад +5

    With expanded playoffs, we're basically guaranteed to get much worse "champions" in the future.

  • @scottnepereny8170
    @scottnepereny8170 4 месяца назад +11

    You have to remember that this team won 100+ games in each of the previous two seasons. In 06 the Cards were plagued with injuries for most of the year. That's why the low record. Fortunatelt, they got healthy at the right time and were a force in the postseason. You should consider this when you call them the "worst world series winner".

    • @Compucles
      @Compucles 3 месяца назад +1

      The starting rotation outside of Carpenter was still very weak. Mulder never got healthy, Marquis fell off a cliff, Reyes was mediocre (arguably over his entire career) outside that one World Series game, and their deadline pickup Weaver wasn't very good until the playoffs (like Molina's bat that year). The bullpen also wasn't much better, especially after losing Isringhausen. (Yes, Wainwright stepped up as closer, but Izzy at closer and Waino as a setup man still made for a superior overall bullpen.)
      Luckily, injuries lasting through the playoffs made the Mets' rotation even weaker.
      Besides, injuries also count in determining how good or bad a team is in any given year.

  • @dougfowler1368
    @dougfowler1368 3 месяца назад +1

    In the mid-90s, my first computer strat-o-matic season I wanted was 1987 by far! It lived up to my expectations of quite a few different teams winning the World Series and more just the pennant. The ball that was so Lively they said you could hear it's heartbeat was one reason but both American league divisions were really interesting. Not quite as much the National League but all those good MVP candidates... anyway I did get the Twins winning a few World Series out of the few dozen full seasons I played but not very many. Only one I remember for sure, Frank Viola beat Dwight Gooden 2-0 in game 7.

  • @Might-l5m
    @Might-l5m 4 месяца назад +19

    Look at 04 and 05. This team was a whole lot better than the record said. They got hot the next to last game. Also the team who started Oct was their opening day lineup with Wilson exception

    • @Compucles
      @Compucles 3 месяца назад

      The lineup, yes, but the pitching was a different story. They no longer had Matt Morris, Woody Williams, or some key bullpen figures from those two previous years; Marquis fell off a cliff; Mulder got hurt and missed most of the season and the playoffs, and Isringhausen also missed the playoffs to injury.

  • @nehemiaharndt5772
    @nehemiaharndt5772 4 месяца назад +2

    “Known speedster Yaider Molina” had me 💀

  • @dr.manhattan4537
    @dr.manhattan4537 4 месяца назад +2

    That 2006 loss in game 7 catapulted the Mets into misery for the next 8 seasons. 3 different managers, 2 general managers, injuries, bad free agent signings and the final nail in the coffin the Bernie Madoff disaster.

  • @NotFadeAway522
    @NotFadeAway522 4 месяца назад +5

    The Cardinals had been a great team for years before '06. They had made the playoffs in 2000, 20001, 2002, 2004, and 2005, with two 100 win seasons and a World Series appearance in that time. They finally had positive variance after a few years of having good teams and coming up short.

    • @blmareterrorists
      @blmareterrorists 4 месяца назад

      Those 06 cardinals were not good. They just got hot at the right time. They were not good

    • @luke-i1w
      @luke-i1w 4 месяца назад +1

      @@blmareterrorists Those 06 Cardinals were injured...a lot. And getting hot at the right time is something good teams do.

    • @evanbultemeier3596
      @evanbultemeier3596 3 месяца назад

      @@blmareterrorists They were a better team than there record indicated. Like the video mentions they had tons of injuries. Jim Edmonds and Scott Rolen (Rolen now a hall of famer) who were hurt for substantial time were MVP caliber players. When you have those two and Albert Pujols in your lineup your team is likely a 90+ win team.

    • @Compucles
      @Compucles 3 месяца назад +1

      @@evanbultemeier3596 To be fair, even when healthy Edmonds was no longer an MVP caliber player that year. He started to decline slightly in 2005 and then kept declining for the rest of his career after that.

  • @nickanderson1951
    @nickanderson1951 4 месяца назад +20

    Tigers or Mets are going to join this list

    • @Destiny2Enjoyer
      @Destiny2Enjoyer 4 месяца назад +4

      Or Royals

    • @jacksonconley5117
      @jacksonconley5117 4 месяца назад +2

      Mets most likely.

    • @ryancampbell5788
      @ryancampbell5788 4 месяца назад +2

      Lmaooooo okay

    • @Floww23
      @Floww23 4 месяца назад +4

      Mets been the best team since June what are you on about 89 wins about the same as Yankees dodgers

    • @xCTF74
      @xCTF74 3 месяца назад

      @@Destiny2Enjoyer😢

  • @Compucles
    @Compucles 3 месяца назад +1

    NLDS: Cardinals vs. Padres - The Padres had excellent pitching but a weak offense that even the Cardinals' mediocre pitching could shut down. The Cardinals' offense, buoyed by the return of Edmonds and Eckstein from the IL during the final week of the regular season, was able to score enough runs to take the series 3 games to 1.
    NLCS: Cardinals vs. Mets - The Mets' starting rotation had been decimated by injuries to the point that it even weaker than the Cardinals' rotation. In hard-fought 7-game series of mostly high-scoring games, the Cardinals squeaked by to win the NL Pennant.
    World Series: Cardinals vs. Tigers - No excuses here. The Tigers were an all-around excellent team, with USA Today even jokingly predicting they would beat the Cardinals in just 3 games. Yet, the Cardinals somehow managed to outplay the entire team except for Kenny Rogers. The Tigers pitching staff also didn't help matters by committing a throwing error in every single game, and so the Cardinals won their 10th World Series in just 5 games.

  • @ClockworkEngineer
    @ClockworkEngineer 4 месяца назад +2

    Yadi's big time. Also, no clip of Prince Fielder causing an earthquake with the worst attempt to get back to the bag ever?

  • @Acetag31
    @Acetag31 3 месяца назад +1

    Ironic the Cardinals got health at the right time while the injury bug killed the Mets. They missed El Duque and Pedro

  • @PoeticProphetic
    @PoeticProphetic 4 месяца назад +7

    As a Mets fan,I hated the cardinals that year

    • @sirjer73
      @sirjer73 3 месяца назад +1

      Go Red Birds!!!

  •  4 месяца назад +3

    They were a good team they were just down Chris Carpenter all season. When he came back they rolled.

  • @Jens-we3vg
    @Jens-we3vg 4 месяца назад +1

    My buddy & I were watching NLCS game 2. When Taguchi pinch hit I turned to my friend and said this a great matchup, wagner is going to supply all the power for taguchi.

  • @bmac4
    @bmac4 4 месяца назад +2

    "Guitar Hero legend Joel Zumaya" lmao

  • @kenw2225
    @kenw2225 4 месяца назад +9

    Yea I dont consider 06 cards to be one of the worst teams to win a ws.

  • @TheMightyThor83
    @TheMightyThor83 3 месяца назад +1

    Keep in mind the Tigers had no right to be there. Kenny Rogers won pivotal games against the Yankees and Athletics by using pine tar on his hands. He was caught against the Cardinals. The Cardinals never beat the 2006 Yankees or Athletics. They beat a team that shouldn’t have been there in the first place.

  • @mattfrommo2483
    @mattfrommo2483 4 месяца назад +3

    The roster was not that different in 06 than in 05 or 04. The players you mentioned were moslty bit pieces. The 06 Cardinals would have been a 95-100 win team if they had been healthy.

    • @Compucles
      @Compucles 3 месяца назад

      Eh, kind of. They still lost Edgar Renteria, Woody Williams, Matt Morris, Reggie Sanders, Larry Walker, and at least a couple good bullpen pieces from one or both of those 100+ win teams. Meanwhile, Edmonds was in decline, Marquis fell off a cliff, and Molina's bat didn't show up until the playoffs.
      Without the injuries, I'd put them at a low 90s regular season win total.

  • @deuce-infinitum2001
    @deuce-infinitum2001 4 месяца назад +2

    Jeff Weaver and Chris Duncan were clutch when it mattered.

  • @TenThumbsProductions
    @TenThumbsProductions 4 месяца назад +1

    5 throwing errors from the Tigers pitching staff to first base and 3 more from Brandon Inge. Tigers gave that one away.

    • @Compucles
      @Compucles 3 месяца назад

      They weren't all to first base, but yes, 5 throwing errors by the pitchers, one in each game.
      The errors weren't the only reason the Tigers lost, but they were certainly a significant contributing factor.

    • @TenThumbsProductions
      @TenThumbsProductions 3 месяца назад

      @@Compucles I just went threw and read them and they talked about one that Verlander threw to third and missed so you are right, not all too first but most were and the 8 errors was a World Series record, plus the pitching staff only had 15 in 162 games. Polanco going 0-17 also was back breaking.

  • @deuce-infinitum2001
    @deuce-infinitum2001 4 месяца назад +2

    Isringhousan was awful. This is a really good video actually. When izzy got hurt i was so stoked for waino tk be the closer.

    • @jon-eriksuermann
      @jon-eriksuermann 4 месяца назад

      Izzy or “isn’t” he wasn’t awful for us overall for his tenure.

    • @sirjer73
      @sirjer73 3 месяца назад +1

      Man i thought Izzy going down was a Godsend. Izzy always kept it interesting for Cardinal fans!!!😂

  • @dennisdezarn5895
    @dennisdezarn5895 4 месяца назад +6

    As I really enjoyed this video, as it was interesting and informative, as a fan of your work, as i feel, as much as i can, as you use the word as over and over, as...

  • @Davidc9356
    @Davidc9356 4 месяца назад +3

    Worst team to win a WS was the 97 Marlins.

    • @rushrush1209
      @rushrush1209 3 месяца назад +2

      I respectfully disagree. The 1997 Marlins were loaded with a lot of talent throughout their roster.

    • @GreatMewtwo
      @GreatMewtwo 3 месяца назад

      ​@@rushrush1209 The aftermath of that team, the front office brought that on themselves by breaking it up.

  • @SagestoneMVP
    @SagestoneMVP 4 месяца назад

    loved the guitar hero legend comment big rip and the comment about molina being a known speedster lmao

    • @BobbyBoucher228
      @BobbyBoucher228 4 месяца назад

      Joel Zumaya getting injured playing too much guitar hero will always be funny to me and is still one of the most bizarre injuries in baseball history.

  • @Compucles
    @Compucles 3 месяца назад

    The Mets really weren't *that* much better than the Cardinals. Yes, the Mets had a somewhat better offense and a better bullpen, but due to the injuries in their starting rotation, the Cardinals actually had a slight advantage there despite how mediocre their own rotation was, which is primarily what ultimately tipped the 2006 NLCS in St. Louis's favor.

  • @zendoargos4988
    @zendoargos4988 4 месяца назад +4

    That Cardinals team didn't have the record that they would have had they been healthy the entire season. Only 3 starting pitchers had more than 20 starts that year; Carpenter, Marquis, and Suppan. You don't typically have much success if your rotation is pieced together during the season like that. Wainwright became a post season hero as the closer because of issues with Izringhausen...changing closers to an unproven rookie is not a winning move late in the season.
    They had down years from some guys and other guys missed a lot of time. Jim Edmonds had been a key part of the team since arriving in St Louis and 2006 was the first time that he missed significant time. He played 110 games that year after averaging over 140 in his first 6 with the team. That kind of production on the field (all-time gold glove centerfield) and at the plate was missed.
    Teams that have the issues that the 2006 Cardinals had typically don't make the playoffs. They become a story of what might have been. The Angels teams that had both Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani come to mind.
    The reason the 2006 Cardinals are considered "one of the worst teams to ever win the world series" is because they actually made the playoffs and won. Had they lost to the Mets in that crazy NLCS the team would be remembered as a team that had overcome so many issues to get to the brink...only to come up short. The same would be true if they had lost to Detroit in the World Series itself. They would have overachieved to get there and then lost.
    The "worst" world series champion is still a WORLD SERIES CHAMPION...unless you're the 2020-Dodgers...short season titles don't count LA you bunch of fake losers who can't back it up with a real title.

    • @xlr0gd205
      @xlr0gd205 4 месяца назад +1

      You wouldn't be talking that trash to Rays fans if they had beaten the Dodgers in 2020, right?

    • @zendoargos4988
      @zendoargos4988 4 месяца назад

      @@xlr0gd205 I would talk trash about it even if my beloved Cardinals had won that World Series. I am glad they played that season but it was not a real season on the same level as every other season.
      It was fake and it is a fake championship.

    • @esmith6656
      @esmith6656 4 месяца назад

      emotionally stunted Dodger hater.

  • @barrywright3670
    @barrywright3670 4 месяца назад +4

    2006 Cardinals record was 82 79

  • @andrewmiller4573
    @andrewmiller4573 4 месяца назад +2

    I had no idea that the '87 Twins had THAT BAD of a road record?

    • @markcornish2519
      @markcornish2519 4 месяца назад +1

      And 0-3 on the road in the world series

    • @jon-eriksuermann
      @jon-eriksuermann 4 месяца назад +3

      They’ve never won a road World Series game. Now that the dome is gone they may never win again

  • @ConcernedCitizen5514
    @ConcernedCitizen5514 4 месяца назад

    I remember watching this World Series and I thought that the Tigers would easily win it. However, the Tigers really chocked and seemed to make so many mental errors and played without confidence, giving the World Series away.

  • @Pocketrocket-pj1us
    @Pocketrocket-pj1us 4 месяца назад

    1987 was my first year of really watching baseball.
    I was 11, scored every game, with my photocopied score cards.
    We won 91 games that year, went into the final week, with a chance to win our division.
    It turned out we finished 3rd, with 91 wins. But we were in the wrong division because we would have won the Nl West by 1 game and the Al east by 6 games.
    So, we finished 4 behind the Cards and only 1 being the defending World Series champion, N.Y. Mets.
    It was 37 years ago and at only 11, there would be other chances...right?
    Yes, the Montreal Expos would have 5 or 6 years, out of the next 17, to make the playoffs.
    One year, they had 94 wins and in a decade where the Baseball Gods, laughed & added Atlanta, to our Division, 94 was still not good enough but
    Next year would have to be our year! In 93, our winning pct, was our best ever, at .577. In 1994, it was at .649.
    Many Canadians will take not of that number. It was the name of the government's biggest gambling draw.
    Lotto 6/49! A good omen for the rest of the season.
    It would be tough to hold on to a .649 winning .pct.
    But it would have taken an act of God to blow the 6 game lead we had, our most ever and the best record in Baseball. 6 games up, on the Atlanta Braves team. It was the Expos in the N.L. and the Yankees in the A.L.
    And then the world of Baseball stopped spinning and like a hanging fastball...
    It would not change, it would only get closer...
    All of Those 1994 numbers would not Change, not up or down...
    They would stay frozen, to history as the Owners and Players, failed to decide who gets more of our money. LOL
    In the World time moved but not in the baseball World. As the boys of Summer, turned to the bums of fall, the only thing we watched was the color of the leaves changing and time kept Slipping away...
    .649 70 wins, 40 loses but much, much more was lost. Faith in the business of Baseball, being the biggest, until Ironically it was the roided up cheaters and their action figure bodies that would save the game but that was 3 or 4 years off and not too important for our story today.
    Montreal, similar to the Twins, were small market teams. Oakland as well.
    But it was those Twins. Our A.L. cousins, Similar in so many ways but as this wonderful video showed us.
    Timing is everything and the worst team, to win it all...Won it all. In 87 and again in 91. Winning at the right time and in the right place is how the 87 Tigers, with the best record in Baseball, never made it to the Series in 87. They ran into the wrong team, at the right...Time. The 94 Expos, also with the best record in the league, never got the chance to Win it...or lose it, just purgatory.
    Then, 10 years later, they ran out of time, for real. No more next year. No more Spring training, Opening day, or Take me out to the ball game. It's been almost exactly 20 years, since the Original Canadian team, who paved the way, for a team in Toronto won the
    World Series in 92 and 93.
    I remember in 93 the talk of a all Canadian World Series. Since then, not only has the U.S. won the Canadian Football league championship and oldest Trophy in pro sports. The Grey Cup. No Canadian team has won the Stanley Cup, or World Series, since 1993.
    Some say that we're a hockey town. We don't need Baseball. That's why we couldn't keep the Expos. They're wrong!!
    All they need to do is a bit of research and they will know.
    20 years doesn't seem like a big deal, when you're 20 but when you approach 50...
    What do I end this on? This is not an anniversary any Fan should be forced to see. So instead, let's look back. They say it's bad to live in the past but without a future and 20 years ob blindness...
    Every once in awhile, it's okay to look back, at the good and the unfortunate and of course the bad.
    We did our part, even though we had very little to spend the 1$ bleacher tickets we would buy, as youths, were good enough :)
    They can't take those memories away!
    Je me souviene pour tous mes jours et tous, de Nos Amours.
    Merci pour les memoirs, et pour,
    Les Expos de Montreal

  • @mariocisneros911
    @mariocisneros911 4 месяца назад +1

    No team is the worst champions. They best everyone they met

  • @blopblop1
    @blopblop1 4 месяца назад

    It's crazy how Jeff Weaver shoved for the playoffs after being either mid or awful for most of his career.

  • @edvaira6891
    @edvaira6891 4 месяца назад +4

    Hated these guys since They KEPT BEATING MY PADRES (until 2020 at least )…a lot of people say the 1997 Florida Marlins were the weakest WS winner

  • @JosephRocco-mi4cm
    @JosephRocco-mi4cm 3 месяца назад +1

    Worst World Series champions: still World Series champions.

  • @SakAttack87
    @SakAttack87 3 месяца назад

    The Yankees definitely limped to a division title in 2000. They only won 87 games in the regular season while the rest of the AL East underperformed.
    However, that was also a team that had won three of the last four World Series so they had the playoff pedigree to flip the switch when the calendar turned to October.

  • @daltonfarris
    @daltonfarris 4 месяца назад +1

    If u look back at the names on both rosters after the fact the cardinals roster is far superior to the Tigers.

  • @RatatRatR
    @RatatRatR 4 месяца назад +17

    You overuse the word "as."

    • @stormageddon248
      @stormageddon248 4 месяца назад +1

      True. Easy fix though.

    • @Pocketrocket-pj1us
      @Pocketrocket-pj1us 4 месяца назад

      ...as the Crow Flies.
      ;)

    • @Floww23
      @Floww23 4 месяца назад +1

      Ass*

    • @willteepe2721
      @willteepe2721 3 месяца назад

      Though true, I don’t think it affects the entertainment factor of the video, at least for me

    • @RatatRatR
      @RatatRatR 3 месяца назад

      @@willteepe2721 Yeah, granted

  • @rushrush1209
    @rushrush1209 3 месяца назад

    Their regular season record doesn't matter now. They won it all that year. No one can take away from them.

  • @joedav02
    @joedav02 4 месяца назад +2

    You mentioned the Cardinals in 2004 while a video in the new Busch stadium played and mentioned the 2006 Cardinals in the old Busch stadium. You even referred to the video. Busch was built and opened in 2006

    • @BobbyBoucher228
      @BobbyBoucher228 4 месяца назад +3

      The Cardinals Broke ground on new Busch Stadium after the end of the 2004 season and were building it during the 2005 season and it opened for the start of the 2006 season.

    • @joedav02
      @joedav02 4 месяца назад

      @@BobbyBoucher228 correct.

    • @joedav02
      @joedav02 4 месяца назад +1

      @@BobbyBoucher228 the commentator mentioned a home run in 2004 but the video was from 2006 and he did it again earlier

  • @davidahlstrom7533
    @davidahlstrom7533 4 месяца назад

    The Twins hadn't been out of the playoffs / post season for 27 years (as of 1987). They won the AL West in 1969 and 1970. Also they were in the '65 World Series.

  • @JG23Garner
    @JG23Garner 4 месяца назад +13

    Let’s be real. The 2010-14 Giants were literal frauds and got Mickey Mouse rings. Just look at their mighty matchups in the World Series against 90 win teams (3x). They just got lucky. They missed the playoffs every year in between and since 2016 have only made 2 playoff appearances. Now THATS fraudulent. Case Dismissed.

    • @deftonestoolfinch
      @deftonestoolfinch 4 месяца назад +1

      💯 💯 💯

    • @SmokeyNades
      @SmokeyNades 4 месяца назад +7

      Let’s be real, you’re still triggered over a decade later. Case closed.

    • @JG23Garner
      @JG23Garner 4 месяца назад

      @@SmokeyNades mehhh not really. It’s just the truth. So who’s really triggered here 🤷‍♂️

    • @SmokeyNades
      @SmokeyNades 4 месяца назад +5

      @@JG23Garner it’s funny seeing an LA sports fan talking about Mickey Mouse rings after 2020 😂 you can’t make up that irony.

    • @JG23Garner
      @JG23Garner 4 месяца назад

      @@SmokeyNades exactly why I said it tho because you and Astros fans are the quickest ones to say that shit when it’s more authentic than those three. So what’s really ironic here 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @gregh816
    @gregh816 4 месяца назад +2

    Well done good sir

  • @danzemacabre8899
    @danzemacabre8899 4 месяца назад +2

    This is really quite simple, a Cardinals team with Albert Pujols in the lineup is never the worst of anything

  • @HeathBorders
    @HeathBorders 4 месяца назад +5

    You used a photo from the 1991 World Series for one of the 1987 Twins victory shots. You can tell because you can see someone in a Braves uniform in the background.

    • @joedav02
      @joedav02 4 месяца назад

      He did the same thing for the 2004 Cardinals (used 2006 video) and 2006 Cardinals (used 2004 or 2005 video). I know this because the current stadium opened in 2006.

    • @BrianHunter-j4m
      @BrianHunter-j4m 4 месяца назад +1

      Yes, The Braves player walking off the field, gave it away, but what I noticed before that was Jack Morris, who was not on that Twins team as ironically he was busy being the winningest pitcher of the 1980s for the ALCS runner up and the team with the most wins in baseball in 1987, the Detroit Tigers

  • @nigelmarshallkenyonabbott8684
    @nigelmarshallkenyonabbott8684 4 месяца назад

    The worst record for a playoff team since 1994 three divisions started was San Diego with record of 82-80

  • @jon-eriksuermann
    @jon-eriksuermann 4 месяца назад +1

    Worst? Who cares it was awesome for us in St. Louis!

  • @jordanford9320
    @jordanford9320 4 месяца назад

    I was a kid at that 06 brewers cards game 5 , I remember because I had gotten in trouble at school and needed a signature from my parents and I didn't tell my dad until after the game because I didn't want to not get to go😂😂😂 he told me afterwards if they would have lost I would have been in huge trouble but since they won it's okay

  • @johnlandrigan6578
    @johnlandrigan6578 4 месяца назад

    I remember a rainout in the Cards mets series in 06. Since the Cards won the WS that year I assume it benefitted the Cards.

  • @Pocketrocket-pj1us
    @Pocketrocket-pj1us 4 месяца назад

    17:45
    Kenny The Gambler always knew when to hold him and when he was trying to run. He never counted his money, sitting in the clubhouse.
    There will be time enough to count it, IF the Tigers Won!

  • @macdreezy794
    @macdreezy794 4 месяца назад

    1906 Hitless wonders and '88 Dodgers have entered the chat

  • @hewster9874
    @hewster9874 4 месяца назад

    At 13:07 Yadier Molina es finally mentioned 😂

  • @albertelnen9144
    @albertelnen9144 3 месяца назад

    They weren't the worst team. Just their record wasn't that high. Once you make pistseason. Regular seasons means nothing.

  • @deuce-infinitum2001
    @deuce-infinitum2001 4 месяца назад +1

    Spezio. Yes

  • @chrisallen2954
    @chrisallen2954 4 месяца назад

    Any true fan knows the team with the best regular season record rarely wins the WS. Teams with momentum usually win.

  • @charlieterz5033
    @charlieterz5033 4 месяца назад

    That Mets team really should've won a world series

    • @esmith6656
      @esmith6656 4 месяца назад +1

      shoulda, coulda, woulda

  • @Bigeazy87
    @Bigeazy87 3 месяца назад

    Did anyone watch the 2023 World Series? At least people watched that Cardinals team

  • @PhantomofDB
    @PhantomofDB 4 месяца назад

    2006 World Series should have been twins Mets

  • @jimmcrosby9229
    @jimmcrosby9229 4 месяца назад

    might want to brush up on the math skills - 1970 to 1987 is not 27 years

  • @dave0051
    @dave0051 4 месяца назад +1

    Wtf dude. Any team with a prime Albert Pujols always has a chance.

  • @stormageddon248
    @stormageddon248 4 месяца назад

    You use and too much as well. Try to mix it up with some meanwhile although also however as well or just some well timed pauses. It is a bit distracting. Other than that keep up the good work.😊

  • @booradley6832
    @booradley6832 4 месяца назад

    Sidney Ponson spent a while in Baltimore and got made fun of a lot lol. Btw Its not "Ponsun" its Pon-sown"

  • @VisualTedium
    @VisualTedium Месяц назад

    87 Twins clearly cheated at home

  • @EricMorris-hn6hu
    @EricMorris-hn6hu 3 месяца назад

    Better to be "the worst" World champions (they weren't) than the so called best team to fail (116 win Seattle team).

  • @SukunaIsHim
    @SukunaIsHim 3 месяца назад

    A winner is a winner y’all couldn’t compete🤣

  • @williammarriott6131
    @williammarriott6131 4 месяца назад

    This is supposed to be about champions(s!), not the history of the Stl cardinals

  • @HundredJono
    @HundredJono 4 месяца назад +5

    The '87 Twins cheated and used the Metrodome's air conditioning to their advantage. The only games they won in the WS were at home.

    • @fredcasdensworld
      @fredcasdensworld 4 месяца назад

      Guess you're just like Sting, you use a 10-ply if you're crying about this nearly 40 years later

    • @Pocketrocket-pj1us
      @Pocketrocket-pj1us 4 месяца назад

      I did not know that. They have gotten away with it, for all these years. That is injustice on full display.
      So here's what we can do. How about you show me your source(s) and then we can put it together with what I have and send it to the commissioner!
      They will not be able to stop 2, or more witnesses and I'm sure that just by bringing the issue to their attention, other whistleblowers will come forward.
      Let me know when you are ready, and we'll get the process started.
      Thanks for bringing this to my attention.
      Have a good day.

    • @sirjer73
      @sirjer73 3 месяца назад

      I agree if this happened to the Red Sox or Yankees it wouldve been movies and documentaries about it ad nauseam!!!

  • @Gabethetitan
    @Gabethetitan 3 месяца назад

    1986 mets?

  • @chrisruth7057
    @chrisruth7057 4 месяца назад

    It's actually 83--79

    • @evanbultemeier3596
      @evanbultemeier3596 4 месяца назад

      It was 83-78. Look it up

    • @chrisruth7057
      @chrisruth7057 4 месяца назад

      @@evanbultemeier3596 I guess there was a 161 game season then or they cancelled 1 game that they couldn't play🤔 cause there is supposed to be 162 games?

  • @ThePaulie02
    @ThePaulie02 4 месяца назад

    Not 2016?

  • @harrydoyle1408
    @harrydoyle1408 4 месяца назад

    Maybe the worst World Champions. Still Champions.

  • @SladeBling
    @SladeBling 4 месяца назад

    Now Kansas City rules Missouri baseball.

    • @markcornish2519
      @markcornish2519 4 месяца назад

      Ha ha

    • @markcornish2519
      @markcornish2519 4 месяца назад +1

      20 winning seasons out of their 55 seasons of existence, let's see if they can actually have a second winning season in a row next year

    • @jon-eriksuermann
      @jon-eriksuermann 4 месяца назад

      For this year. I’m from St. Louis without butthurt feeling from ‘85. I’m rooting for y’all just like I did in ‘14-‘15. Go MO!

  • @co2metal
    @co2metal 4 месяца назад

    You pronounce 1/20 names correctly and that fairly or not calls into question how researched anything else is. Blocked.

  • @UncleVatred
    @UncleVatred 3 месяца назад

    The 2006 Cardinals had prime Albert Pujols they weren't that bad they were just injured and had a bad September.
    I'm tired of seeing every copy cat ahh youtuber running with this narrative they were a bad team. Maybe the real 'bad team' is the 95+ win Tigers who were done in 5?

  • @RyanBoonslokovich
    @RyanBoonslokovich 4 месяца назад +5

    Definitely 2023 Rangers. Gotta give them credit for going all in for one year though. The Astros gave away 2 World Series!!! One to Tex, one to Wash.

    • @trippietoadie1296
      @trippietoadie1296 4 месяца назад +3

      They had the exact same record as the Astros last year…what the fuck are you talking about???

    • @RyanBoonslokovich
      @RyanBoonslokovich 4 месяца назад

      @@trippietoadie1296 this year was the same team as last year. They got hot and got lucky in 2023. It’s facts 😂

    • @luissantoyo27
      @luissantoyo27 4 месяца назад

      They didn’t “give away” anything. They were the inferior team and lost accordingly.

    • @esmith6656
      @esmith6656 4 месяца назад

      karma for cheating in 2017

  • @austinstitzel
    @austinstitzel 4 месяца назад

    I'm going to guess that you are a Scorpio.

  • @tomcruze7898
    @tomcruze7898 4 месяца назад

    Only the best teams win the world series bub

  • @hwfredddevil
    @hwfredddevil 4 месяца назад +1

    Was the white Sox worst World Series ever nd now the worst team ever

  • @henrywallacesghost5883
    @henrywallacesghost5883 4 месяца назад +2

    The only worst world series champions are the 2020 Dodgers because of the bs regular season. You could also say the 1919 Reds because the other team threw a few games and allowed them to win.

    • @davidalexander8996
      @davidalexander8996 4 месяца назад

      Of course, 2020 was due to the pandemic. If I was the commissioner I would strike both World Series from the official record books and consider the games to be nothing more than glorified exhibitions that only benefited undeserving people (gamblers in 1919, owners in 2020). My heart refuses to accept any accomplishment in 2020 because playing less than 40 percent of a scheduled regular season is inexcusable. Once the sides couldn't work out an 80 game season, that should have been it until 2021.

    • @luissantoyo27
      @luissantoyo27 4 месяца назад

      @@davidalexander8996Why 80? What’s so magical about that number that would have granted a season of that length legitimacy?

    • @luissantoyo27
      @luissantoyo27 4 месяца назад +1

      Nonsense. The Dodgers were the winningest team in the league that year. It would have been bad if the Astros or Brewers won it all that year because they didn’t even have winning records. But the Dodgers were the best team in the league and couldn’t be stopped.

    • @esmith6656
      @esmith6656 4 месяца назад +2

      so whoever won the 2020 World Series would have been the worst ? the Dodgers had the best record that year and beat the Rays who had the second best record. if your favorite team won that year i doubt you would say the same thing.