We Don't Need No Stinking Curses

I guess I almost was hoping that the Sox would lose the World Series because I did not want the list of 'teams of futility' to shrink by one. The list now is as follows:

Chicago Cubs (1908)
Chicago White Sox (1917)
Cleveland Indians (1948)
Your San Francisco Giants (1954) - and that was as the New York Giants

The St. Louis Cardinals become the first World Series team since 1988 to have won 100 games in the regular season and lose. That team, the Oakland Athletics, also was managed by Tony LaRussa.