Statement Regarding World Series
It was a fine run during the 2009 postseason for a deeply flawed Philadelphia Phillies team.
As so often happens in sports postseasons, a teams flaws become completely over-exposed and wind up costing them dearly.
I’m sure you can nit-pick Charlie Manuel’s performance and Cole Hamels and Brad Lidge and Shane Victorino and a million other guys, but I can’t really get too upset. Making it to the Series twice in two years was really special and all of those guys did something no other Philly team was able to do since 1983: Win a Championship.
It was a tough run for a lot of my favorite players like Lidge (great jersey purchase), Bruntlett (0-1), and Stairs (4 hits since the All Star Game).
This team will look a little different in 2010- Myers is already gone, maybe Pedro, and a few others- but they will still contend for the title.
I know most Phillies fans won’t echo this sentiment after game 6, but I would love to have Pedro back on the team. He makes baseball a little more fun.
Hopefully guys like Werth and Ruiz can keep their monster production up in 2010, and the Phils should have a pretty damn good chance at winning three straight pennants.
In closing, congrats to the Yankee fans. I know we all hate them, but give the devil their due. Hopefully Jim Leyritz celebrated the victory responsibly. It was tough to really hate the Yankees this year, because their main players were all really good guys. You can’t hate Damon, or CC, or Rivera, or even A-Rod. Gone are the days of A-1 pricks like Gary Sheffield, Randy Johnson, or Kevin Brown taking up space on their team. I have to admit, that I did get a pretty hearty laugh from Japanese player Hideki Matsui receiving an American car with his WS MVP award. I’m sure he will have little use for it.
So congrats to New York. Congrats to Philadelphia, and hopefully we can re-create the match up in the NFC playoffs. Eli just loves playing the Eagles, and we love playing him.
lordelevation
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