No kidding. If the Cards knock out LA/SF in the one game play-in I expect a re-structuring of the playoff system immediately. But if the tables were turned and one of us small markets got burned it would just be "That's baseball" “Us small markets”? You certainly can’t be suggesting that the Cardinals and Brewers are in the same category of “small market”. The geographic scope of the Cardinals fan base results in broadcast revenues that far outpace the Brewers’. If the Cardinals are small market, the Brewers are micro market. Point taken. Lesser market. In my mind there's 3 classes: BIG - NY, LA, Chicago, Houston and Phoenix. SMALL - everybody else except TINY - Green Bay St. Louis is a dying city, not as bad as Detroit, for example, but in my lifetime we lost the Hawks, the Cardinals and the Rams and the city itself is borderline blighted. I don't know that much about Milwaukee, but it has to be more prosperous than the Lou! FYI I moved the hell out right after high school and will never return.