A fanbase sees their team backed into a bad playoff system (that was finally fixed in part due to them) on the last day of the regular season and they become experts on making the playoffs. Maybe there should be a column for embarrissing wins. But then there should be a column for embarrassing World Series titles, see St loius, 2011
Edit: My apologies, I thought you were a Cards fan after only readng the first part of that post.