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Asking questions about those Cardinals-Dodgers series

IMPORTANT questions

As the FBI investigates the Cardinals for accessing a proprietary Astros database, some columnists have started to ask whether St Louis had an unfair advantage over the Dodgers in the playoffs the last two years.

But what if they've got it completely wrong?

If the Cardinals did gain an unfair advantage over the Dodgers in ways that not only would be entirely separate from how they accessed the Astros' system but have also not been alleged by anyone with any knowledge of anything, then that supposed cheating actually helped the Dodgers.