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The Most Boring Game 7 in Sports History?

Watching this NLCS is like watching the finals of the WNBA or a professional tennis tournament in, say, Binghamton. Sure, the sides are closely matched, but in the larger context of their sport, neither is much more than mediocre. At full strength—which is to say, with all their starters healthy—the following American League teams would defeat either NL pennant contender in a seven-game series:

Yankees
Red Sox
Twins
Tigers
White Sox
Angels
Athletics
Blue Jays

So the Mets and Cardinals are, at best, the 9th and 10th best teams in Major League Baseball. This is partly because of the DH, but mostly because the NL sucks, which this year has been proved beyond a reasonable doubt. It's hard to know what accounts for this—offense-deflating ballparks? the unequal distribution of talent and/or PEDs?—but the disparity grows more and more pronounced.

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