SAN DIEGO — A Cardinals season that will be cheered, cursed, begrudgingly respected and/or downright dismissed ended here Friday.
We will spend the next days, weeks, months and years trying to figure out what to make of it.
There will never be an answer that suits everyone.
That much we can agree upon right now.
But as the fog of San Diego’s marine layer started blanketing Petco Park after the Cardinals' 4-0 loss to the Padres in Game 3 of this wild-card series, one fact remained the same, just as it was eight months ago when the scene was Jupiter, Fla.