Posted by: blue hen
- [299161612] Thu, Oct 30, 2008, 10:32
It warrants a new thread. This is special. As we speak, I am listening to the Phillies radio version of the last 2 innings. Nice...
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Donkey Hunter Leader
ID: 916288962 Thu, Oct 30, 2008, 13:23
So if Burrell leaves should the Phillies go after Manny? That would be one heck of a lineup.
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blue hen
ID: 299161612 Thu, Oct 30, 2008, 14:27
I guess. I'd love to have another thumper in the lineup. Granted, Burrell was fine, and even underrated. I'd love to have Burrell AND another hitter. Maybe a third baseman?
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ttz
ID: 419481519 Thu, Oct 30, 2008, 14:39
I was wondering...with 26 teams in the league at the Phillies´ last championship in 1980, and 30 teams currently in the league, isn´t 28 years about the time you should expect between WS championships?
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blue hen
ID: 299161612 Thu, Oct 30, 2008, 16:07
Yes. For me, it's a bigger deal that no Philadelphia team had won since 1983.
Here are the baseball teams that won: Anaheim, Arizona, Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago Sox, Cincinnati, Detroit, Florida, Kansas City, LA Dodgers, Oakland, Minnesota, NY Mets, NY Yankees, St. Louis, Toronto
And not: Chicago Cubs, Cleveland, Colorado, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Houston, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Texas, Tampa Bay, Washington
Did not even make a World Series: Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Texas, Washington
Terrible ownership times three, the lovable Cubs, and the unlucky Mariners.
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Razor
ID: 529382710 Thu, Oct 30, 2008, 17:06
How were the Mariners unlucky? Their best team ever didn't just get beat by the Yankees, they got steamrolled. I guess it's unlucky that the few good teams they've had over the past 30 odd years coincided with the Yankee dynasty, but mostly they've just been bad. And too cheap to pay the three first ballot Hall of Famers they had.
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Seattle Zen
ID: 49112418 Thu, Oct 30, 2008, 17:45
When the Phillies clinched it in front of the home fans, it certainly brought back memories of being a college freshman in 1987 when the Twins won it all. It's a strange feeling being a diehard fan of a team that is in the World Series and you are not living in the team's city. I was in college in CA and the only Twins fan around. I was a nervous wreck and actually surprised how wound up I was during the games. It's funny to think back, living in the dorms back then, long before the World Wide Web, we didn't even have cable TV in our rooms. I had a tiny black and white TV, though there was a big screen in the common area. I remember at some point during the Series that something horrible happened while the Twins were pitching and I swore that I would from then on watch the Twins bat on the big screen and the Twins pitch back in my room on the b/w.
Then for game 2 on a Sunday, as I was going back and forth, a handful of students who were not at the school on an athletic scholarship, I assure you, had switched the big screen over to Star Trek The Next Generation. Furious, I had to finish the game in my room. Game 7 came along and I sat my ass down in front of that big screen and didn't move, politely informing the Star Trek fans to come back next week. And what a Game 7 it was! Looking back, I'm sure I would have been up for flipping cars over and setting them on fire if I were outside the Metrodome celebrating, however, sitting in a college dorm many miles away watching the Twins, yes the TWINS, of all teams, win the crown, it was amazing.
So, for all of you Phillie fans who were too young to remember 1980 and who are no longer in Philadelphia but watched from afar, I know what you are feeling and it's damn good!
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blue hen
ID: 86502521 Fri, Oct 31, 2008, 13:54
Amen, Zen. I am watching the parade on MLB.tv right now. Granted, there are a whole lot of Phillies fans around here, so it's been alright. I'd imagine there were fewer than 100 Twins fans in all of California in 1987.
As for the unlucky Mariners, I'll give you that they are (were) cheap. Very much so. But I call them unlucky because despite the fact that they had 3 of the best players ever, in their primes, they were unable to turn playoff appearances into championships. They had several opportunities (besides just 2001) and never made a World Series. Clearly, they're on a different scale than the Rangers or Nationals. Maybe the Pirates are a decent comparison; they had bad luck AND crappy management.
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judy Leader
ID: 7771722 Sat, Nov 01, 2008, 16:47
I had 1992 WS tickets in PGH -- where were you when Sid slid??
What a downer. I had been there in PGH for six years and managed to convince my Steeler friends that a baseball game WAS worth going to and then...crash...
By 1993 I was back in Philly, waiting...
The parade was awesome -- A sea of red smiling faces. I have never seen so many happy people in one place at the same time. The stadium part (watched on TIVO later) was really neat!
SEPTA was horrible -- we spent a total of 6.5 hours waiting for trains.
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blue hen
ID: 86502521 Sat, Nov 01, 2008, 21:33
I was in the family room at my parents' house watching with my father. I remember it pretty well - Drabek was still in but had let some runners on, and I said that it was hard to believe Pittsburgh was still winning.
And then they weren't. When Sid was running, I said aloud "he's out by a mile."
For all the talk of dramatic endings, that one's about as good as it gets - Game 7, team goes from one out away to having lost.
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Electroman
ID: 47928246 Sun, Nov 02, 2008, 14:54
Expos have to be one of the most unlucky franchises. Before they were a joke at the end, they were a successful franchise. In 79, 80 and 81, three of the best years, the teams that beat them out went on to win the world series. And how can you forget about '94. If the season would have been a week longer in '93, they would have caught the Phillies. I think that the Wil Cordero double was against the Phillies at the Big Owe. Man do I miss them. And I think that you can't call Bonds not throwing out a gimpy Bream unlucky.
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Great One
ID: 298238 Mon, Nov 03, 2008, 10:38
Somebody put up that video from youtube of the guy climbing the traffic light during the Phillies celebration... i can't get there from work.
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blue hen
ID: 299161612 Mon, Nov 03, 2008, 11:57
Ruben Amaro is the new GM, and Mike Arbuckle is leaving the Phillies. Think we can get Paul DePodesta to replace him?
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JTSERB Donor
ID: 481020120 Mon, Nov 03, 2008, 13:19
Congrats BH and other philly phans. While I was sorting pulling for the Rays, time says the Phillies deserved it more. Party like a rock star ;)
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Great One
ID: 26943119 Tue, Nov 04, 2008, 22:54
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blue hen Dude
ID: 710321114 Wed, Dec 10, 2008, 10:38
Still pretty happy we won.
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Steve Biz
ID: 4411431017 Wed, Dec 10, 2008, 18:52
Here here. Great stuff to finally have a champion in Philly (and the Phillies are my favorite so very sweet). I was one of the lucky able to attend Game 5 (parts 1 and 2) and will remember it my whole life.
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