Philadelphia Phillies Fans Coming to Grips with a New Feeling: Winning

It happened. My God, it actually happened. I'm kind of at a loss for words. I don't know what to do now. There's a line at the end of The Princess Bride , when they're leaving the castle, where Inigo Montoya says that he's been in the revenge business so long, he doesn't know what to do with himself now that he's slain Count Rugen. The Phillies just slew their six-fingered man. For a generation, no major team in Philadelphia had won anything. Anything. We were so desperate for a winner, we claimed racehorses as our own. Not even Smarty Jones could end the drought. But now... I walked outside this morning, in the crisp October air, and the weight on my shoulders is gone. The tension, released. So this is how Yankees fans have felt 26 times. Nice. I like it. Last night, I got to live a dream. I watched one of my teams—MY teams—win a championship. I woke the kids, just as my father did for me in 1980. I brought my 4-year-old daughter down in the bottom of the eighth. My ... (link)