Orioles' dysfunction is Cardinals' success
The St. Louis Cardinals are playing in their third World Series in eight years. It's not a big stretch to say the Baltimore Orioles -- and their dysfunction -- deserve some of the credit. St. Louis has enjoyed its winning run under the direction of owner Bill DeWitt Jr., who purchased the Cardinals in 1995. That same winter, Tony La Russa left Oakland to take the managing job in St. Louis. If Orioles owner Peter Angelos had not been his heavy-handed self, though, DeWitt would
