A Dodger Fan's Open Letter to the Intangible Notion of the Cardinal Way

Dear Fans,
This Dodger Fan would like to say CONGRATULATIONS to the Boston Red Sox! Clearly the better team won. The Red Sox had not came across as self-righteous, arrogant, seemingly entitled holier-than-thou players. And neither had their fans. The Sox didn't come out and criticize the other teams they beat. The Red Sox won with class, dignity and respect throughout the entire season. No one player was more important than the other- and that included the other teams. 
St. Louis, take a lesson.
Normally I do not rub a loss in someone's face. But the Cardinals and their fans with their holier than thou attitude really bugged me. The way they personalized their smugness toward L.A. really had me thinking: I am a National League Girl at heart, and for a National Team to be SO rude and smug and self righteous that it got me to get me to root for the American League,...well there MUST be something wrong. I remember rooting for the Cardinals in 2011 when they beat the Rangers! I am a die-hard Dodger fan, but the Cards were the National League so of COURSE I HAD to root for them.
That was 2011. 
Never. Again. Will. THAT. Happen.
So yes, as a Dodger fan I am feeling a little vindicated this evening, not JUST because Boston won, but because St. Louis lost. 
I think the reason the Cardinals couldn't pull it together and fell apart in the end.... wait, read this  http://www.stltoday.com/sports/columns/bernie-miklasz/bernie-what-it-means-to-be-a-cardinal/article_afc4c8db-5d9d-5815-9c14-e3e77721a50b.html (now insert laughter here) was perhaps because the Cardinals played like they deserved it. They played like they were entitled. And that is just a silly way to play.
They played like no one was better than the other. Including the other team. I believe the word I am looking for here is cocky. Or maybe entitled. 
One writer seemed delusional in my opinion when he inferred that the Cards didn't try to embarrass the other team. What Cardinals team was HE referring to? The Cardinals referred to the Dodger's celebration after the won a playoff game at home as "Mickey Mouse." I assumed after that comment that the Cardinals would be celebrating with tea and crumpets in the locker room? More than once L.A. was accused of not playing like a team. I'm thinking that qualifies as smug and rude, which can be filed under trying to embarrass the other team.
On Boston:
They went from worst to first. They had been counted out. They DID deserve to win it because they didn't act like they deserved it. They simply played. Dear Cardinals, Pull up a seat and help yourselves to a slice of humble pie and take a lesson.
No wonder the Cardinals folded when Boston opened Game 6 with a 3-0, 4-0 then 6-0 lead.
At least St. Louis wasn't shut out (feel free to read that aloud in a sarcastic tone). 
Cardinals scored 14 runs in 6 games. 5 of those runs were in the four they lost. I guess they were too set on the Cardinal way that they couldn't play like a team in order to find a way. Nope, that Boston motto ain't gonna get old any time soon.
From this Dodger fan's perspective, there is no other way fr the Cardinals to play. Their fall was a small taste of justice from destiny for L.A. To have to depend on obstruction calls that the umpire never calls (did Joyce EVER give the signal?? I personally never saw his arms go up in signal of an obstruction call- he just called safe then started yelling- kinda like St. Louis most of the time), and to have to whine about imaginary Vaseline in a pitcher's glove  http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/cardinals-pitching-prospect-suggests-boston-jon-lester-threw-134202958--mlb.html ... really? That's the legacy you want to leave behind? Although I really must say THANK YOU to St. Louis for making history the second time- that WAS the BEST pick off EVER! Way to go Wong! 
Maybe, just maybe, if the St. Louis Cardinals (and their fans) hadn't been so bent on playing the Cardinal way instead of maybe simply FINDING A WAY (again yet!), then MAYBE.... 
And by the way, to the fans IN St. Louis who held up three Ks, listen up: the polite way to celebrate three strike outs is to make at least ONE of the Ks backwards. But backwards thinking leads to disturbing insinuations. Haven't been able to find any pics of this but I saw it. So did the world. Ick. Just ick.
And if any Cardinals Player or Fan senses a hint of smugness in my tone, (shrug). When done here, please go find a mirror. I will always root for National League... UNLESS it is the Cardinals 2013 and going forward. My personal rule has been forever altered, based on the perception the Cardinals wanted us all to have of them. I wouldn't feel right rooting for arrogance.
Look, neither the Dodgers nor the Cardinals won the World Series. And yes, the Cards won the NL, but (one more little smug please): the Cardinals LOST their last home game of the season. The Dodgers WON theirs. They played like a team. And so did the Red Sox.
Yep. Tonight was good. I can sleep.
Congrats to Boston!