Saturday, November 1, 2008
2008 WORLD SERIES CHAMPION PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES
The moment that I have been waiting, literally, my entire life for has finally happened. The Philadelphia Phillies have won the World Series. WOW! What a feeling! So many emotions boiled up inside me once the Phillies took the pennant. Simply incredible. I have invested a lot of my time and energy into this team and it finally paid off. You gotta love the way this team won it, too. Hamels was phenomenal on the mound, Utley argulably the best all around player on the team with his bat and the great plays he made in the field. The bats of Howard and Werth, the tenacity of Victorino, the sexiness of Pat Burrell. All these players did an amazing job this year and I was glad to be able to feel apart of it. But as old Chuck Dickens once wrote, it is the best of times and it is the worst of times. For the first time since I 3 years old, I am living more than 2 hours away from the city of Philadelphia. When Lidge struck out Hinske to win the game, I was 2000 miles away. When the team cracked open the champagne, I was 2000 miles away. When the parade went down broad street, I was 2000 miles away. The amount of joy I have for the team winning is equal to my sadness of not being home to celebrate with my fellow Philadelphians. But either way, the 2008 World Series Champions are still the Philadelphia Phillies no matter how far away I am and that's a very good thing. Congratulations Phillies and congratulations Philadelphia.
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Hey Billy- At least you aren't alone. Dan and Pat are both more than 2 hours away from Philly and had to recruit Phillies fans so they could enjoy the games then of course there is Uncle George and his gang in Scotland who watched on the game on the internet in the wee hours of the morning. Uncle Michael,too was far away from Philly so you had some great company in rooting for the Phillies from distant places. ya gotta love that they won. I am just glad to say your Dad didn't have a heart attack or a stroke during the series. The night they won I thought his old ticker was going to stop! You are a phillies fan because you were raised by one of the greatest Phillies fans.
Now lets get those Eagles on the road to the superbowl! Love ya
Mom
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