YES!!! My Phillies clinched the division Monday night behind a masterful 2 hit performance and we are en route to our 4th playoffs in as many years. With the best 1-2-3 staff in baseball right now (and arguably one of the best of all time...reminiscent of the early 70's Orioles and A's) we are the prohibitive favorites to win it all.
This team faced adversity all year with injuries hitting us from day one...literally with Jimmy Rollins and Joe Blanton on the shelf and the entire team being bitten by the bug at one point or another. But Charlie Manuel was masterful in his game management skills and he hung in there. Ruben Amaro Jr. pulled the trigger on the perfect deal getting us Roy Oswalt and our guys got healthy at the right time.
This will be another bittersweet playoff run without our dear friend Harry to narrate the action, but he is watching and rooting and I do believe we'll be singing High Hopes come November.
To a Philly boy mired in Nashville...that's the sound of heaven itself!
Go Fightins!!
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