The Poverty Jet Set » phillies http://thepovertyjetset.com Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:08:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 We Did It! http://thepovertyjetset.com/2008/10/30/we-did-it/ http://thepovertyjetset.com/2008/10/30/we-did-it/#comments Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:29:23 +0000 Mark http://thepovertyjetset.com/?p=777 Champs

Philadelphia Phillies became World Champions last night, in case you didn’t hear. If you were in Philly last night, there wasn’t a chance in hell you missed it. The noise + celebertion + collective euphoria was unbelievable. Here’s a crappy, dark, blurry shot I took on my phone outside of Johnny Brenda’s in Fishtown. Probably 500 people in the street from all the bars in that area. Fireworks. Police. Crazed fans. Amazing.

Fishtown Phillies Party

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[photo: ESPN/AP Photo/Chris Carlson]

Holy crap, I am so high from the Phillies amazing playoff run right now (though it might be the coffee). I haven’t been this baseball crazy since I was 12 and I was growing up in the Bay Area and going bananas for the Giants awesome playoff run that got them to play the A’s in the “Earthquake” World Series in 1989.

Jason Stark’s pride-inducing post-game write up starts off:

The magic of October is that you can’t script it, you can’t predict it, you can’t even explain it.

So who wrote this script? Who predicted this finish? Who can explain the unbelievable chain of events that have led the Phillies to the brink of their first World Series journey in 15 years?

My love of baseball has been fully revived. If I weren’t so damn broke, I’d snap this up in a hot minute:

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