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***World Champion Phillies Thread*** (1 Viewer)

Jeff Pasquino

Jeff Pasquino

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Congrats to the Phillies for ending a 28 year drought for their franchise and bringing home the championship for only the second time ever.

Philadelphia is a championship city again.

When's the parade?

:confetti:

:pickle: :pickle: :banned: :clap:

:hifive: :lmao: :thanks:

 
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Jeff Pasquino said:
Congrats to the Phillies for ending a 28 year drought for their franchise and bringing home the championship for only the second time ever.Philadelphia is a championship city again.When's the parade?:confetti: :yes: :) :banned: :clap: :hifive: :yes: :thanks:
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Supposed to be Friday... might be working in Philly that day ;)
 
Thanks Pat Burrell for the years good and bad... you fought through some rough patches and the fans supported your hard work!!!!

 
Congrats to all Phillies fans. I just left the home of a bunch of well deserving Philly fans. Philly fans are some of the greatest in the country. Dont let anyone tell you anything different.

 
Hammered Finz said:
belljr said:
Jeff Pasquino said:
Congrats to the Phillies for ending a 28 year drought for their franchise and bringing home the championship for only the second time ever.Philadelphia is a championship city again.When's the parade?:confetti: :pickle: :pickle: :banned: :clap: :hifive: :excited: :thanks:
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Supposed to be Friday... might be working in Philly that day ;)
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friday at noon.. starts at 20th and Market, heads doewn Broad to the sports complexes..
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Yeah they just announced it on Fox. :thumbup:
 
Congrats Phils.

Don't overlook that play by Utley. He never would have got the out at first. A huge play!

 
Can we go ahead and set the line at over/under 2 million fans at the parade on Friday?

I'll take the over!!!

 
RobMoney said:
Can we go ahead and set the line at over/under 2 million fans at the parade on Friday?I'll take the over!!!
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Had today off originally for the parade but the rain on Monday ruined those plans, so I won't make it, but I WILL TAKE THE OVER TOO!!!!!!!!!Stay blessed Philadelphia. We did it!
 
Whole Camels said:
Jeff Pasquino said:
Sonny Lubick Blow Up Doll said:
Capella said:
Sonny Lubick Blow Up Doll said:
Why did paskino all of a sudden get all into this?
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Based off the threads here, Monday.
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k, thanks, so enough time to get a hat.
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Phillies fan since a kid, thanks for asking.Wh are you always such a tool?
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check here :bye:
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Settle down, tiger. Just another bet, and I won't cry for two days like you did when they stopped the game too late for your liking.Don't confuse a wager with my questioning of the sudden emergence of a new Phillies fan. It's funny is all, as we never heard from him.

You're a legitimate Philly fan, congrats! Seriously. I actually like Philly fans (and I'm an NL guy to boot), but I'm not gonna go searching for the post where I said as much.

 
Sonny Lubick Blow Up Doll said:
Whole Camels said:
Jeff Pasquino said:
Sonny Lubick Blow Up Doll said:
Capella said:
Sonny Lubick Blow Up Doll said:
Why did paskino all of a sudden get all into this?
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Based off the threads here, Monday.
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k, thanks, so enough time to get a hat.
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Phillies fan since a kid, thanks for asking.Wh are you always such a tool?
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check here :bye:
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Settle down, tiger. Just another bet, and I won't cry for two days like you did when they stopped the game too late for your liking.Don't confuse a wager with my questioning of the sudden emergence of a new Phillies fan. It's funny is all, as we never heard from him.

You're a legitimate Philly fan, congrats! Seriously. I actually like Philly fans (and I'm an NL guy to boot), but I'm not gonna go searching for the post where I said as much.
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Hater. Go Phillies

 
Hammered Finz said:
belljr said:
Jeff Pasquino said:
Congrats to the Phillies for ending a 28 year drought for their franchise and bringing home the championship for only the second time ever.Philadelphia is a championship city again.When's the parade?:confetti: :X :pickle: :banned: :clap: :hifive: ;) :thanks:
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Supposed to be Friday... might be working in Philly that day ;)
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friday at noon.. starts at 20th and Market, heads doewn Broad to the sports complexes..
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Where do we think the best spot is? Any thoughts?
 
Please See Mine said:
Hammered Finz said:
belljr said:
Jeff Pasquino said:
Congrats to the Phillies for ending a 28 year drought for their franchise and bringing home the championship for only the second time ever.Philadelphia is a championship city again.When's the parade?:confetti: :pickle: :hifive: :clap: ;) :thanks: ;) :banned:
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Supposed to be Friday... might be working in Philly that day ;)
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friday at noon.. starts at 20th and Market, heads doewn Broad to the sports complexes..
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Where do we think the best spot is? Any thoughts?
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Where are they giving the speeches? Philly news is expecting 3+ MILLION people to attend.. wow :X
 
Hammered Finz said:
Please See Mine said:
Hammered Finz said:
belljr said:
Jeff Pasquino said:
Congrats to the Phillies for ending a 28 year drought for their franchise and bringing home the championship for only the second time ever.Philadelphia is a championship city again.When's the parade?:confetti: :pickle: :pickle: :banned: :clap: :hifive: :popcorn: :thanks:
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Supposed to be Friday... might be working in Philly that day ;)
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friday at noon.. starts at 20th and Market, heads doewn Broad to the sports complexes..
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Where do we think the best spot is? Any thoughts?
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Where are they giving the speeches? Philly news is expecting 3+ MILLION people to attend.. wow :unsure:
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Speeches are likely in the stadium (CBP) so if you're going to the parade, you'll just see the team and anyone associated with it travelling on floats.
 
free tickets available at 3pm on phillies.com for seats at citizens bank park and the Linc for the speaches at the end of parade.

I'm gonna go down somewhere

 
I'm not sure what the rules are on "pay" material, so moderators, if this isn't kosher, feel free to delete or modify. Also, all but the last two paragraphs of this portion that I'm quoting are available to non-subscribers. Finally, I strongly encourage any baseball fan to suscribe. It's the best internet money a sports fan can spend (in addition to footballguys, of course).

Anyway, this is the first 1/3rd of Joe Sheehan's column from Baseball Prospectus today. I thought baseball fans, and Phillies fans in particular, might like it:

Prospectus Today

The Champions

by Joe Sheehan

Baseball is just fine. Rain, cold weather, long games, late games, poor TV ratings, worse umpiring... none of it matters. Nothing that makes this many people this happy is ever going to go away.

Watching your favorite team win a championship isn’t the highlight of anyone’s life. We love, we marry, we parent, we achieve, we have all of these experiences with family and friends. These are the things that make up a life.

Your team, though... you share that with everyone. You don’t go through that alone, with your spouse or your kids, with your friends or your business partners. You live that passion in public, in a stadium, with thousands, tens of thousands of others, and your heart goes out on your sleeve and stays there, no matter how badly it gets bruised. Everyone around you, walking around for years—28 of them, say—all of you with a shared history of joy and pain, of almost and not-quite-almost, memories of the great third baseman or the scrappy center fielder, but also of a left-handed reliever gone awry, and the other guys jumping up and down, spiking your ill-placed heart, pain you’d try to forget if only those damned highlights people would let you.

And in a moment, you’re healed. In the time it takes for a reliever—a perfect reliever—to drop to his knees and raise his arms to the sky, it all goes away. There’s no disappointment, there’s no pain, there’s no frustration, there’s just you and 46,000 like you, screaming into the night sky with that reliever, a building full of happy, surrounded by a city of joy, all looking at one thing: baseball.

That moment is why baseball is just fine. Baseball makes people happy, so happy that they hug strangers, cry in public, scream at the top of their lungs, or just sit, slumped, shaking, relieved, disbelieving.

Just after the game, maybe three minutes, I was walking through the stadium down to the field, probably half as fast as I needed to be moving. I couldn’t rush through all that happy, couldn’t walk through the crowd and not read every face, soak in the expressions as the ruddy-cheeked, apple-nosed Philadelphians shouted gleefully to no one in particular, demanding high-fives, high-tens, a high-twenty if you stalled in front of the right person.

There was this girl—23, 24, maybe?—brunette, curly-haired, 5'5", and based on her outfit, a ballpark employee. She had the standard T-shirt and Dickies outfit we’ve been seeing here all week. She was walking slightly off from the crowd, dialing a flip phone, crying openly, not the clenched-jaw tears of someone hiding something, but just weeping, sobbing. God knows who she was calling... a boyfriend, a mother, a coach, a sister... but the raw emotion she was showing was compelling. She was maybe nine or 10 when Joe Carter sliced a knife through a city, scarring it for 15 years, and she cried that night, too, cried herself to sleep the way little girls do—big, choking sobs that shook her body until she had nothing left.

Not last night. Last night the tears were happy, defiant almost, shaking a wet fist back in time to that night in 1993, the one that broke her heart, but maybe formed it as well, with little seams, and a darker red hue, and a small curlicue "P" forever branded in one corner.

Yes, baseball is just fine, and maybe we’re all a little bit too close to it, we know too much, see the trees and miss the forest. Maybe that’s not even all that bad, because some people need to know how the trees grow and what kinds there are and how best to keep them tall and florid, but not everyone does. Some people can just breathe the oxygen and sit in the shade and appreciate the beauty. On a night like tonight, when that beauty fills a space so fully that you can’t imagine a world without it, you envy those people a little, the ones who express their love in a crowd, hearts on their sleeve, tears on their cheeks, and filled with all the passion this game inspires.

Baseball is just fine.

 
E-A-G-L-E-S said:
free tickets available at 3pm on phillies.com for seats at citizens bank park and the Linc for the speaches at the end of parade.I'm gonna go down somewhere
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:thumbup: :bowtie: Ill be there .. taking the traing to CBP ... around 6:30am ... then all hell's breaking out..!!!FEELS GREAT TO BE A PHILLY FAN ..!!!!!!
 
Wu-banger said:
E-A-G-L-E-S said:
free tickets available at 3pm on phillies.com for seats at citizens bank park and the Linc for the speaches at the end of parade.I'm gonna go down somewhere
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:thumbup: :bowtie: Ill be there .. taking the traing to CBP ... around 6:30am ... then all hell's breaking out..!!!FEELS GREAT TO BE A PHILLY FAN ..!!!!!!
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Couldn't get any sat in queue for 25 minutes then gave up.I'm just going to the office tomorrow and watching from a conf room...
 
Good news: It's always great seeing a team that hasn't won it in a while, get there and do it (especially when their team name doesn't end in Sox)

Bad News: Drunk idiots at Giants Stadium on 12/7 sluring "where's your Mets hats?" all game long.

 
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