Cardinals outfielder Lance Berkman offered an apology of sorts to the Rangers on Tuesday. Berkman didn't think Texas would advance to the World Series for a second straight year, which is why he decided to sign with St. Louis even though the Rangers pursued him this past winter. "I'm not afraid to say, 'Hey, I wasn't right,'" Berkman said. Berkman told a Houston radio station in January that the Rangers were an "average team" without star pitcher Cliff Lee, and that they caught "lightning in a bottle and they got hot" when they made last year's World Series. "Certainly the last thing I want is to have the entire state of Texas to be mad at me," Berkman said the day before the start of the 2011 World Series. "I don't want to disrespect any players the Rangers have, because they have a fine baseball team. I think if you say enough things publicly, eventually you're going to say some things that are probably not great, and that's the case here."