On the outside looking in

With the pennant races heating up, both the Yankees and Cardinals are in an unfamiliar spot

Tensions are high for managers Aaron Boone (left) and Oliver Marmol with both the Yankees and Cardinals preparing for rare Octobers off

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For longer than many current big leaguers have even been alive, the New York Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals have been the death and taxes of Major League Baseball.

In an era of teams tanking for high draft picks to fuel rebuilds and trying to take advantage of limited windows for contention, of big-spending busts and low-payroll also-rans, the Yanks and Cards have been like the sun rising in the east.

They’ve been the surest of Baseball’s sure things.