Eh, playing a dumb manager isn't lucky, it's just playing baseball. We were lucky as hell to come back from 19-31 more than we were lucky in the postseason IMO.
Don't forget we had Joe Torre literally trying to stop us from winning Game 6. We beat the cheating Astros AND the commish office.
However you want to characterize it, they got some very fortunate, unusual things go in their favor at pretty much every stage along the way.
