The Golden Age: Phillies 10, Dodgers 4

The best reliever after the starter gets the win.

Three years—easy for him to say.

and I am walking outside the Vet on the concourse with my father. I am 7. My father is taking me to see Steve Carlton vs. the Cardinals with 50,000 others. After every single. I feel the roar and the place seems to shake a little. I am hooked.

I was 8 or 9 when my dad took me to my first MLB game @ Connie Mack Stadium in the late ’60s! Dad was a Mets fan, but something about the Phils grabbed me then—-and has never let go!!

After 40 years of agony & ecstasy, this is the most incredible feeling—-something I never even dared to hope for!! I look forward to taunting my Yankees-loving office mate!!!

I was born in 1980, so unfortunately it was downhill from there for a long time. Growing up, the Phillies mostly sucked. There was 1993… but I was 12 at the time and more interested in playing baseball than I was watching it.

Really for me, when I started to heavily follow the Phils the Braves were winning the division every year. For a long time I could barely conceive of the BRaves not winning the NL East, let alone the Phillies actually doing it and then going on to win the world series… It’s just great. Great time.

…but I vividly recall my first Phillies memory: crying and screaming “I hate Mitch Williams!” as an 8-year old after Game 6 of the ’93 World Series.

To say that the past two years have been an unbelievable ride is the understatement of the millenium.

1980 was a good year as was 1983 and then from there pretty much downhill until that one bright, shining moment in 1993 (but I was a Junior in college at the time so couldn’t get as caught up in it—but at least I could drink when they lost). I married a huge baseball/Phillies fan and it only made the fandom grow. Our son has been attending Phillies games since he was 11 months old and saw his first postseason game at a year and a half (only 30 years before I got to attend one!).

I got a transistor radio and started turning it in at nights, I heard Phillie games and the announcing team was Bill Campbell and By Saam. Later in the evenings I would try to tune in other stations and found I could hear as far as Cincinnati and even St Louis, they had a pretty good announcer by the name of Buck. But, I was really hooked when I went to my first game at Connie Mack in 1970 with my Little League team from Levittown. Started going to games at the Vet the next year with my older sister (my dad was always working nights as a car salesman). In 1974, I was 16 and could start driving myself and my little brother and friends. It was the good years of Schmidty and Co. I shared a partial plan (15 Games) with some guys at work in 1978. I traded my end of season tickets for ones earlier in the year when I went in the military. Although, I never went back to Philly to live, I got as close as Baltimore in the mid 80’s and early 90’s before moving here to Florida in 1993. Since I was out of the area in 1980 and 83 (overseas in USAF) and had just moved here in 93, my first real chance came last year here in Tampa. And truly, the game one win was awesome as you can imagine. To be there with a friend was so great and to be able to yell at the game, instead of home was fantastic. I hope everyone gets to experience it on the own. GO PHILLIES.

my best friend always imitated Mike Schmidt’s swing in gym class. Asking who he was, I was told that Mike was the 3B for the Phillies. At the time, I only knew the Giants, because of my dad (because although I grew up in the Philly suburbs, my dad hated Philly teams), but after seeing a Phils game shortly thereafter, they became my team

After finding out baseball was interesting in 1959, I talked my mother into taking me to Connie Mack Stadium for opening night in 1960. It snowed or was freezing, so they postponed the game. My mother, bless her heart, drove us back to North Philadelphia the next night and we stayed until the end, a walkoff 10th inning single by Joe Koppe. The memory of the green grass under the lights that first time will stay with me always.

Thanks. Maybe we can face you in the NLCS next year?

p.s. I have an unhealthily sized mancrush on Timmy.

An incredibly talented team, that won’t quit and is firing on all cylinders. The chance to defend is well-earned.

I LOVE WERTH. Threesome?

/nohomo

Yeah I thought it was pretty awesome that they played that.

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ToddZolecki: Shane Victorino said he took x-rays on his left elbow. He said they were negative. He said he will be fine.

Whew.

amen I say to you.

Thank you sir. Best of luck to you fellas in the rest of your series. If you can’t slay the beast… we’ll do our damnedest as well!

Pretty much. I wouldn’t be surprised if all three get a start if the series involves two trips to the AL park. Of course, Sabathia/Pettitte suggests that Francisco would get four shots, maybe five, in a seven-gamer.

I think this might be the only time the Phillies actually have people rooting for them all over the nation. The Yankees are the Evil Empire and no one besides Yankee fans (and maybe some bitter other NY/divisional fans) want them to actually win the WS.

  
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The starting times are a bit of a drag for our side of the pond:

Wednesday, 28 October 2009, 20:00 New York time is equal to

• Moscow, Thu. 03:00
• Bucharest, Thu. 02:00
• Frankfurt, Thu. 01:00
• London, Thu. 00:00

Daylight Savings Time in North America ends on Sunday, 1 November 2009, 02:00 (local daylight time) and in Europe on Sunday, 25 October 2009, 03:00 (local daylight time).