Let us, however grudgingly, congratulate Tony LaRussa who has now managed his team to more wins than any man in major league history who didn't actually own the team he was managing.
I've never exactly liked the guy, or thought all that highly of the way he managed his teams. And I've always held him responsible for the plague of relief pitchers who have swarmed all over the game like so many locusts these last thirty years. But he's one of the very, very few men in history who was able to keep being successful with the same team for a period longer than the usual five year shelf life.