Red October
I was lucky enough to have tickets to game 4 of the World Series last night. The memetician's hometown team, the Philadelphia Phillies, turned it on late and trounced the Tampa Bay Rays 10-2. The Phillies are now one victory away from giving this championship-starved town their due.
With Phillies' ace Cole Hamels on the mound tonight for game 5, this city of Philadelphia is ready to explode in celebration. I expect the same domination from Hamels in game 5 that he has provided the entire postseason. Honestly, though, what else would you expect from a guy that is 100 feet tall?
Life is good right now. A few notes from last night's game:
I spotted Jessie Foyle, 93 year-old Philadelphia native who has attended every World Series game from 1964-2007. Although she has tickets for every home game this year in Philadelphia, she did not make the trip to Tampa, ending the consecutive game streak. She was even wearing one of her three jackets-o-tickets.
Philadelphia native and legendary singer Patti Labelle sang our country's national anthem, the Star Spangled Banner. What a nightmare. I'll never understand why some artists just can't sing the song they way it is supposed to be sung. She even screwed up the words a few times.
The umpire crew blew another call last night, once again leading to a run. Aren't these guys supposed to be the best of the best?
Phillies fans were just brutally harassing All-Star third base rookie Evan Longoria with chants of "E-va! E-va!" Longoria is still hitless in the series. Ouch.
One more to go. Just one more.
Go Fightin's!!!
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Lucky you! That was probably one of the best Phillies games I've seen in my life. Here's to hoping they can finish it all up tonight in our unfriendly-to-Tampa weather so we can get on with the celebration.