Phillies Return to World Series

After tonight's destruction of the last glimmer of hope for the Dodgers, the Philadelphia Phillies are only 4 wins away from a second straight World Championship, one step closer from becoming the first NL team with back-to-back titles since the Big Red Machine of the '70s.  Jayson Werth led the attack with 2 home runs, including a first-inning 3-run bomb that erased a 1-0 deficit, and from there they didn't look back, cruising through the middle innings with home runs from Pedro Feliz and Shane Victorino and getting solid relief work from Chad Durbin and Chan Ho Park in the aftermath of another disappointing Cole Hamels start.  But the best part of the night -- in between all the screaming and curtain calls and celebrations -- was the fans chanting "Yankees suck" in the 7th inning with a 9-3 lead.  Oh yeah.  It's on.  Bring it bitches.  This will be the battle of all battles and I may have to stop speaking to the 8 out of 10 of my friends who are Yankees fans for the next week.  Of course, then I'd be left with just Jan and people who don't follow sports, so it's a tradeoff, I guess.  It should be exciting.

As for the NLCS, we beat the Dodgers 4-1 in the series for the second straight year.  It's funny, I remember back in April and May, when we were struggling and the Dodgers were on fire, and even throughout the summer as we settled into first place, baseball commentators and even Phillies fans were talking about what a great team the Dodgers had and that they were the favorites in the National League.  I laughed.  I really did.  And I talked boldly to anyone who listened that with the Mets out of the picture (early) and the NL East a basic cakewalk, the Phillies would cruise to the World Series for the second year in a row.  I didn't say we'd win the World Series, and I imagine it will be a very difficult task, whether we're playing the Yankees or Angels.  But the National League?  It's pretty much a joke.  Colorado put up a great fight, but the Dodgers?  Come on.  We crushed them last year in the exact same situation and they brought back almost the exact same team and we brought back almost the exact same team (+ Cliff Lee).  I really didn't see how Los Angeles could possibly be favored, but they were, and we responded with Pedro fucking Martinez throwing 7 shutout innings against their "vaunted" lineup.  They do have some good young hitters and they do have Manny.  But the Phillies lineup is the class of the league -- by far -- and really, there's no really comparison.  As long as our starters pitch well (and they did, for the most part), we're going to beat a team like the Dodgers every single series like this.  Especially if they start Randy Wolf and Vicente Padilla in 3 of the 5 games.  Yeah, these were the Phillies top starters back BEFORE we started making the playoffs.  Real smart, Torre.  You're a genius without that Yankee payroll. 

We will need our bullpen against the Yankees, and we'll need Cole Hamels to turn it around.  But as far as our hitters, how can you not just admire a team that has Jayson Werth smacking two home runs in a game in which the Dodgers finally decided to pitch around Ryan Howard to face him.  They are so loose, and so strong, and so incredibly non-plussed, coming back twice already this postseason from their last batter up with 2 outs to win the game.  Just amazing stuff.  I don't know if there's anything more I can say.  They have given me two years of absolute baseball joy, something I waited all my life to experience.  And now that it's here, I don't want it to stop.  The Yankees suck almost as much as their mostly front-running, money-grubbing fans and their slobbering suck-up media.  Bring on those bitches and their HGH-riddled corpses now.

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