The San Francisco Giants are welcoming the St. Louis Cardinals to town, so I’m going to unashamedly admit the following: I kind of forgot about the Cardinals.
It’s weird to forget about the Cardinals. They’ve been one of baseball’s more prominent franchises over the last decade and a half; the Giants have a recent and exciting history of facing them in the postseason; they’re home to perhaps the two biggest Giants killers in baseball (non-Max Muncy division); and the media attention is seemingly always focused on them.
Yet I forget about them. They just kind of exist, year in and year out, as the team that is pictured in the dictionary under “baseball team.