Is the World Series in the Cards for the Cardinals?

With game one of the ALCS over baseball fans everywhere look towards Sunday's game 1 on the National League side. With an almost magical run the Cardinals rallied from 10.5 back with a month left to make the playoffs and then vanquished the #1 team in all the Majors when they defeated the Phillies in the NLDS. That being said, the Brewers won the NL Central (the same division the Cardinals are in) giving them home field advantage in this series. Home field COULD play a major role considering the Brewers have been almost un-beatable at home and won all THREE of their home games in the NLDS to advance. 

Adding fuel to an already red hot fire is the budding rivalry between the Cards and the Brew Crew. With players such as pitcher Zach Grienke claiming that, "no one likes (Cardinal's ace) Carpenter," and Nyjer "T-Plush"Morgan calling out Albert Pujols on twitter earlier this year it is fair to say that the Brewers are under the Red Bird's skin.  

This match-up is one that we saw a lot of in the regular season, and there was a pretty consistent result: The Cardinals won. I don't see any reason for that to change. I could go into the stats and give you a pretty solid reason but instead I'm going to simply ask a question: Can the Brewers win on the road? I have yet to see them do that in the postseason and I have serious doubts that the Cardinals, who have been on fire since about August 28th, will lose four games in Milwaukee, their offense is too good and their pitching staff has dominated the Brew Crew all year. So that means very simply: Brewers, if you wanna make it to the World Series win a game or two in St. Louis, if you do that, you've earned it. 

Official prediction: Cardinals in five games.