Cards enjoying Octoberfest 
So we say: Go ahead. You've earned that right, in your own unique way. And we'll prove it, with some invaluable World Series Useless Information:
• Why is it all right for Cardinals fans to wallow in that 19-year drought? Because no team in baseball made more postseason visits or played more postseason games in that span than the Cardinals did without winning at least once in a Series game. This was their seventh tour of baseball's Octoberfest since their tragic demise in the '87 World Series, and it took them another 66 postseason games to finally win another World Series game. The only other team that can even approach that is the Astros -- who reached the postseason six times and played 40 postseason games in that period but never won a World Series game (thanks to the White Sox). The rest of the teams in the made-the-playoffs-but-never-won-a-Series-game club over the same 19 years: Cubs, Rangers and Pirates (three times), Orioles (twice) and Rockies (once).
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Jayson Stark has been a senior baseball writer for ESPN.com since 2000. His regular contributions include the newsy Rumblings and Grumblings column, his eclectic "Three Strikes" blog and his tilted look inside baseball's numbers and quirks, the Useless Information Department.
Stark also makes regular television appearances on "SportsCenter," "Outside the Lines" and "Baseball Tonight." He is a regular ESPN Radio guest of Mike & Mike, the Doug Gottlieb Show, the John Kinkade Show, ESPN Radio tonight and numerous other shows on the network.
Before arriving at ESPN, Stark worked for the Philadelphia Inquirer for 21 years. He was twice named Pennsylvania's sportswriter of the year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association. In 2010, he was honored by the Foster Conference for Distinguished Writers for his books and other work. He is the author of two books, "The Stark Truth: The Most Overrated and Underrated Players in Baseball History" (Triumph Books, 2006) and "Worth The Wait: Tales of the 2008 Phillies" (Triumph Books, 2009).