You never know. Other teams can have bad luck too. If it so happens the Cardinals are right there in contention for the NL central as the trade deadline approaches, what will they do? What will Mo do? What will Bill allow Mo to do? What will Bloom agree to do?
On the Member Board jnevel took a survey of the chances of the Cardinals making the playoffs and winning the division. You put zero percent chance on both questions, which I agreed with.