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Well done!

Congratulations, Phillies!

I suppose Melly is either in the stadium or somewhere else celebrating. Congrats!

Meanwhile, an SC shoutout: The series MVP award, to pitcher Cole Hamels, was a 2010 Chevy Camaro.

Snaxx

jacorbett70 wrote:I suppose Melly is either in the stadium or somewhere else celebrating. Congrats!

Meanwhile, an SC shoutout: The series MVP award, to pitcher Cole Hamels, was a 2010 Chevy Camaro.

Snaxx

But it was red, not silver.

Congrats Phillies!

Congrats National League!

Congrats on a perfect season, Brad Lidge!

Jeemie wrote:

jacorbett70 wrote:I suppose Melly is either in the stadium or somewhere else celebrating. Congrats!

Meanwhile, an SC shoutout: The series MVP award, to pitcher Cole Hamels, was a 2010 Chevy Camaro.

Snaxx

But it was red, not silver.

The nerve! It should be silver.

SportsFan68 wrote:

Jeemie wrote:

jacorbett70 wrote:I suppose Melly is either in the stadium or somewhere else celebrating. Congrats!

Meanwhile, an SC shoutout: The series MVP award, to pitcher Cole Hamels, was a 2010 Chevy Camaro.

Snaxx

But it was red, not silver.

The nerve! It should be silver.

It was probably red for the Phillies.

Maybe they roll out a blue one had it been the Rays that won.

Emma's band teacher is from Philadelphia and is a big Phillies fan so he will probably be in a good mood tomorrow.

Ok. We just got back in the house.

We were just dancing in the street -- OK, we were watching the kids on the street dance. Except for the kids across the street who are AT the game.

TLAF is BEYOND happy. She was crying. She said she'll be watching TV through the middle of the night. I don't doubt it.

Boonie and I shed a couple of tears, too. Thinking about our dads and how happy they would be.

Tug McGraw's sons - Tim, the singer, and Mark, who is a carpenter on one of those TV house makeover shows - had the Tugger's ashes on the mound before Game 5 and put his World Series ring from 1980 hanging from the bar at Rembrandt's, which was a favorite hangout of Tug's.

Focusing the karma.

I am really happy for Jamie Moyer, who is a local guy who played hooky from school in 1980 to watch the parade. He was crying tonight.

My friend Theresa's kids are at Frankford & Cottman in NE Philly. There are 15,000 people at the intersection.

BiT mentioned Lidge's perfect season. There was an interesting stat in the Daily news today.

In 1980, Mike Schmidt hit 48 homers.

The same year, Charlie Manuel hit 48 homers for his Japanese team.

This year, Ryan Howard hit 48 homers.

Tonight, Brad LIdge got his 48th save for a perfect season. Nice redemption for him, too.

Now, I have some prosecco to pop.

Melly, I know I've told you that my Dad was a HUGE Phillies fan since he lived in Philly for a year in the 20's. I was crying tonight as well as TLAF just thinking how thrilled he would have been to see this. Fortunately, he saw them win in 1980.

Phillies rule!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I forgot something and I'm not sure how. My haste to get to the prosecca, no doubt.

I am so happy for Pat Burrell, starting the game-winning rally in what may be his last at-bat for the Phillies. Able to leave the field to a wild standing ovation when pinch-runner Eric Bruntlett came in.

And I am so happy for Charlie Manuel.

Charlie took a lot of heat when he first came here because he was an American League-style manager and not used to stuff like double switches.

Some of the heat took the form of "Charlie of Mayberry" mocking -- some mild, some not. Some people said the only reason he WAS here was that he was Jim Thome's hitting instructor in Cleveland and, once Thome left, there was no reason to keep him.

None of that mattered, of course, because his players love him.

Now the fans do, too.

Last night, the fans chanted "We want Charlie" for 10 minutes until him came out. Toward the end of the regular season, when he argued balls and strikes -- and, of course, got thrown out for it -- the fans went nuts. "We love Char-lie!" Clap, clap, clapclapclap.

It's funny because Boonie and I liked him from the start for precisely the "Charlie of Mayberry" aspect. VERY nice man, very approachable.

We had the chance to speak with him briefly at Philadelphia Sportswriters annual dinner last January. Boonie and Charlie had a fine discussion about the tendency of young ballplayers nowadays to swing at the first pitch.

A local sports talk DJ and comedian (two separate jobs ) has a road trip every year for Phillies fans.

The other night, he was talking about how, after the two night games on this year's road trip, Charlie sat in the lobby of the hotel for hours with the Phillies fans, just talking baseball and the city and all sorts of stuff.

And, it's been a hard post-season for him, losing his Mom during the NLCS.

So I am very happy for Charlie.

mellytu74 wrote:I forgot something and I'm not sure how. My haste to get to the prosecca, no doubt.

I am so happy for Pat Burrell, starting the game-winning rally in what may be his last at-bat for the Phillies. Able to leave the field to a wild standing ovation when pinch-runner Eric Bruntlett came in.

I am so, so, so sorry for ruining his once promising career.

Merry Men fans will never forget 2003.....

Or 2004....

Or 2006.....



Ay carumba.... I need another tequila....