Your Philadelphia Phillies are going to the World Series.
I never get tired of saying that. It makes me weep with pure joy every time I think it.
Chew on it for a while. Roll it around your cerebellum. The Philadelphia Phillies are going to the World Series!
The last time this happened I was still a teenager, I was studying physics, I hadn’t even met 99.9% of my friends. The last time this happened Bill Clinton hadn’t even been in the White House a full year.
The last time this happened Saddam was contained under a “No-Fly Zone,” the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City still stood and the World Trade Center still towered over lower Manhattan.
The last time this happened cell phones were still an expensive luxury, Apple Computer was in the toilet, and Microsoft was shipping DOS.
The last time this happened the Braves were still the team to beat, the Yankees still sucked and the Red Sox hadn’t won a World Series in seventy-five years.
It’s a whole new world. A new decade. A new century. Hell, a new millenium. Reckon it’s time for a new destiny.
Bring on the American League. As the shortstop says, “We are the team to beat.”