Wasn’t this a team with a 4.73 staff ERA, a team that gave up 821 runs this year, a team everybody in the entire United States of America knew didn’t have enough pitching to win?
Wasn’t this a team that needed a trainer’s room the size of Fairmount Park, considering it just finished a season where it put five starting pitchers, two closers, the incumbent MVP and the guy who seemed destined to become this year’s MVP on the disabled list?
Wasn’t this a team managed by Charlie Manuel, a fellow whose city concluded, about 12 seconds after he came to town, that he couldn’t manage a car wash, let alone a division champion?
Wasn’t this a team that played in a football town, a town that long ago decided the local baseball team wasn’t ever going to win anything in the next 10 or 12 centuries?
First time since 1993. People are kind of excited about it.
# 2007 Sep 30
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