PHILLIES WIN!!!!! PHILLIES WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Matt says it best: All your base are belong to us.


Make your time, Devil Rays (or Sox)!!! Make your time!!!

Oh, and awesome that Fox Sports keeps kickin the Rocky theme after big Phillies wins!

Politics is fun and all, but...

Nothing can beat October baseball played out like the Phillies did against the Dodgers last night. The game had all sorts of ups and downs, but it ended with classic October fireworks provided by the most unlikely of villains, the small, talkative, speedy and friendly Shane Victorino and Matt Stairs, a free agent the Phillies picked up out of the Toronto Blue Jay's discard bin for the purpose of providing a lefty home-run hitting bat.


It was one hell of a game, and if you are interested in reading more, I highly recommend Phil Sheridan's write-up of why Victorino is such an unlikely villain and Jayson Stark's rundown that references my hometown in the 'burbs of Philly:

Yeah, Stairs hit it, all right. He hit it so high and so far to deep right field that at first, said Howard, "I thought it was going to leave the park and hit the roof." Instead, it "only" came down two-thirds of the way up the right-field pavilion -- a mammoth blast in this park. And as that baseball finally settled into those far-away seats, folks from Chavez Ravine to Cheltenham needed a moment -- or maybe an eternity -- to make sense of what they'd all just witnessed.

That's right, Cheltenham, PA is a wonderful little suburb right outside Philly, a place that I'm sure 98% of people who read this write-up of the game do not know. It's also where my family lived starting back in 1982, and the town my mother still calls home! Why Stark chose Cheltenham to shout out... I'm not sure, but thanks to Matt for pointing this out, and thanks to Stark for the love. The 'ham appreciates it!

Keeping Tabs

So Gizmodo nicely picks up a story today about Jeffrey Toobin tracking the Cubs while taking his seat at the pundit blah blah blah-fest on CNN after the VP debate last week. Complete with pics to prove it, we find that Toobin was using a real-time feature provided by MLB.com to keep tabs on the Cubs epic collapse, timed perfectly to celebrate exactly 100 yrs since the last time they oh... actually won a World Series.

Perhaps the Cubs lost because Toobin was not allowed to bring his goat to the Situation Room , then again perhaps they just lost cause the Dodgers are pretty good this year. Not good enough to beat the Phils though... here we go PHILLIES! (nice segue, right?)