Why I Love That The Phillies Stomped The Rays...
1) The Phillies fans have suffered more. I know right? How could I say that? Every commentator and his grandma have told me how much it sucks to be a Rays fan but here is the reality of it all...
They have only been around for a decade. The Rays organization started in 1998. So they haven't won a World Series in a whole decade. What a tragedy. The White Sox won in 2005, not having won the series since 1917.
The Phillies won it in 1980, so have waited 28 years to bring the trophy home. What I'm saying is, take some lumps as a franchise before you cry about not winning the series. Rays fans don't deserve it yet.
2) Charlie Manuel was born in 1944. He's an old mother.
The Phillies manager is also a huge badass. Manuel has survived a heart attack, quadruple bypass surgery, and cancer During his time with the Indians, he coached in the dugout with a colostomy bag beneath his jacket.
He can't be killed by conventional methods.
Joe Maddon is a dork. All that zen crap was cool when Phil Jackson started it with the Bulls back in the day. I like my coaches crazy and heart attack prone.
3) They actually changed their name from the Devil Rays to just the Rays. Are you kidding me? Has our society become so bible thumpy that teams are making their team names more God friendly? Who made this move? Sarah Palin?
4) Philidelphia is a way better sports city. Tampa fans watch "Murder She Wrote". Philly fans boo Santa. End of story.
5) CowBells
6) The Rays took out the White Sox...that troubles me.
7) The Phillies won me over when they played a song about fish made for toddlers when the Rays players were being introduced at Citizens Bank Park. Classic.
8) Uh...this
9) The RayHawk
10) Philidelphia gave us this...
When it comes down to it, I just hate cute media stories. As sick as it sounds, I was pretty happy when my Bears owned the Saints in the playoffs a couple years back, ending their feel good story about how by winning games, some how New Orleans was being saved.
Now that I think about it, I think there is something really wrong with my moral compass.
I'm going to the barber to get a RayHawk and make this right...
2 comments:
I'll give you props for the reasons you came up with. But I disagree. I think it would have been great for baseball if the Rays had won. The Phillies absolutely nobody outside of Philly cares about them. For a team with a fair amount of stars, they have no appeal to them. What was the worst thing was it wasn't even a good series. There hasn't been a close World Series since the Angels won. I was not remotely happy with the outcome.
Yeah I see your point, and I agree with you, the series sucked pretty hard play wise.
Though I have to say, utley's pump fake throw to home was one of the coolest things I've seen in a baseball game in quite some time. Your probrably going to see a ton of infielders try it this spring and they are most likely going to mess it up.
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