Championship Eve
You don’t want to offend the baseball gods by predicting an early victory, especially when you are a Philadelphia Sports fan; HOWEVER, tonight is a night made for breaking the rules and doing something just a little different. Like winning a world championship.
I was just sitting in my car at lunch and they replayed Harry’s call of Howard’s first home run last night on the radio. The sound that the crowd made when they first heard the crack of his bat against the ball was LOUD. It was one of those Philadelphia playoff roars that you have only heard maybe once in your life. And it scares me to think what that stadium is going to sound like tonight. What does exhaling 25 years worth of complete despair sound like? No one knows, but I think we’re about to find out.
It’s great to think that Harry Kalas is going to get another shot to call a World Series winner. It’s great to think Charlie Manuel gets his redemption on everyone who wanted Jim Leyland to manage this team. It’s great to think that you have a team that is 23-6 in their last 29 and needs to lose three straight games to blow this thing. It’s great to think that Cole Hamels officially puts himself as a top three pitcher in baseball with a win tonight, and a potential 5th playoff win which would break a single season playoff record for any player in the history of the game. I could go on.
I don’t know how much I want to write about tonight. That can come in the days ahead. This is unchartered territory for us. We have our best pitcher in front of a frenzied crowd, and against a team that is one more foot stomp to the head away from a hate crime death. Until then, there is only one thing left to do.
BELIEVE
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