For the Cardinals, the silver lining to this blue-and-orange cloud is the fact that they are better than 26 other teams this year.
Of course, that's like trying to tell a car-losing "Price is Right Contestant" that he should be glad that he won that year's supply of Palmolive.
In fact, Palmolive may be exactly what the Cardinals need. Let's wash everything from this NLCS clean and start fresh next year.