The following is a response from the mayor of St. Louis to a Tuesday Journal article that named the St. Louis Cardinals the most hate-worthy team in this year’s baseball playoffs.

The Wall Street Journal recently released its second-annual Major League Baseball Hateability Index in which it ranked the 10 playoff teams for 2014 “in order of general loathsomeness.” The rankings were based on 10 essential categories to haters including drug suspensions, “ridiculous beards” and, of course, the time-honored crime of winning too...