Important WSJ Study: The Cardinals Are The Most Hateable Playoff Team

According to science, the Cardinals are the most hateable team in in the MLB playoffs.

The Wall Street Journaland created, in essence, a hierarchy of teams to root against. Their results are above, and the Cardinals come out on top. We'd drop their hateability score a little bit, since "Players suspended for PEDs" is not a good category, but even then, the Cards still come out on top. There is some wrong-opinion static about whether "Are fans routinely labeled 'best in baseball?' " is a fair category, since it is clearly targeted. Deadspin believes that any fanbase that does something so obnoxious as to warrant its own category in a hateability index should be docked more than one unit. So -1 for PEDs, +500 for that crap. The Cards are 511.7 hateable, trailed by the Dodgers, at 10.8.

(While we're here, c'mon, $100 million contracts are also not a good reason to hate a team.)

Anyway, go read the rest of the , but the numbers are clear: To hell with the Cardinals. Root for the Royals and the A's.

[ WSJ]