JUPITER, Fla. • Four to one.
Those are the odds, as many Cardinals now know, for the Cubs to win the World Series.
See, as players readied in the clubhouse Tuesday morning, ESPN’s “SportsCenter” aired a segment on World Series odds. And that team in blue has the lowest odds, 4-1, of any team. The on-screen graphic also showed the odds of other contenders. The Cardinals’ odds weren’t even included.
It was fitting that a little over an hour later, in that same clubhouse, manager Mike Matheny addressed the entire 2016 team for the first time.