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2008 WORLD SERIES COMMEMORATIVE SECTION WWEEYO, DDID PHILLY!ID IIT!T!

Rob Kandel The Morning Call AN ESSAY THE PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES have, famously, lost more than 10,000 baseball games since 1883, and not a single one of them means a blessed thing right now, be- cause they just finished winning the four that count the most and are world champi- ons again.

The confetti is falling, at last, on Howard and By Daniel Patrick Sheehan you don’t remember 1980. But even if you do, by Utley and Rollins and Burrell; on Hamels and virtue of loving baseball you are a kid inside, so Moyer and Blanton and Lidge; on Madson and Of The Morning Call 1980 is as distant in time as the conquests of Myers and Victorino and Ruiz; on Werth and Alexander the Great. Or, at least, Grover Cleve- Coste and Romero and Feliz; and on good old late, if you’re not. land Alexander. Charlie Manuel. New York Yankees fans have enjoyed this sen- You thought this year might really be the year, Oh, and it is falling on Billy Penn, who has sation more than any bleacher bums have a right didn’t you? Of course you didn’t let on, for base- finally learned that you don’t have to stand at the to. Chicago Cubs fans haven’t enjoyed it in 100 ball is a game of superstitions and there is no highest point in Philadelphia to stand on top of years. more certain way to call down a jinx on a player the world. If you are a Phillies fan, you have felt it only or a team than to utter expectations of success Sweet, yes? Savor it slowly — like a crystal once before, assuming you are old enough to re- out loud. tumbler of 40-year-old Scotch, if you’re old member 1980 with any clarity. If baseball is still enough, or a ceramic mug of gourmet hot choco- what it is supposed to be — a kid’s game — then PHILLIES PAGE N6

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