The drought is over! The Phillies win it all!
allthingsphillysports.blogspot.com 10/30/2008 — It feels great to type this: the Philadelphia Phillies are the 2008 World Champions!!! For the first time in my conscious life, a Philadelphia sports team is a champion. It feels great now, but how big of a deal this is might not settle in for a while. When I first started this blog back in....

For The City, A Drought Ends
letsgosox.blogspot.com 10/30/2008 — But not for the team! The Phillies won two championships in 29 seasons, in a league with 30 teams. Granted, "all things" are not equal in baseball, but technically, a team should win approximately once every 30 years. When you factor in the fact that ...

For 25 years, this is as close as Philly's been to championship | Philadelphia Daily News | 10/27/2008
philly.com 10/27/2008 — IN THE 25 YEARS since the Sixers paraded down Broad Street to a stadium that no longer exists, two Philadelphia teams have been in a single game where victory meant a championship - the Flyers in the 1987 Stanley Cup finals against Edmonton and the ...

Why Philadelphia's drought will end | Philadelphia Daily News | 10/22/2008
philly.com 10/22/2008 — THE RED SOX were dead. Down 7-0, the defending champions had but seven outs remaining in their 2008 life. Soon they would be nothing but a bad memory. Then, Coco Crisp singled . . . * Joe Jurevicius running down the sideline . . . Magic Johnson ...

YES US CAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
kevinmcguire.blogspot.com 10/30/2008 — The Philadelphia Phillies are your 2008 World Series champions!!!

Congrats To The Philadelphia Phillies
blacksportsonline.com 10/30/2008 — Ryan Howard is from Saint Louis, so I have had the opportunity to meet him several times. I once asked him how was playing in Philly and his reply:. "It can be tough, but they are passionate and they just want a winner" ...

Us Did It! Phillies Are World Series Champions [Philadelphia Phillies]
deadspin.com 10/30/2008 — They sure took their sweet time, but after the most adrenaline-packed three-and-a-half innings of baseball all year (maybe ever?) the Phillies take the lead twice, with the second one sticking for a 4-3 victory, vanquishing the Tampa Bay Rays in five ...

Phillies Blog, Baseball News, Trade Rumors & Spirits: Only in Philadelphia
beerleaguer.typepad.com 10/28/2008 — The first weather suspension in World Series history fouls up the Phillies' possible championship clincher. Why am I not surprised? Radar The mood in Philadelphia shifted just as quickly as the autumn weather. Gearing up for glory (at one point, 10 ...

9,276 days have passed since Sixers won Philly's last title | Philadelphia Daily News | 10/22/2008
philly.com 10/22/2008 — 2004 EAGLES The underdog Birds (+7) hung close with the defending champions until well into the second half, when the Patriots sandwiched back-to-back scoring drives around an Eagles' three-and-out. The Birds ate up a lot of clock pulling to within ...

Phillies to Mets: Drop dead!
blogs.nypost.com 10/30/2008 — The Mets' worst nightmare -- a Philadelphia world championship -- came true tonight, and the Phillies weren't about to let the Amazin's forget it. Longtime Phillies broadcaster Harry Kalas (pictured with the Phanatic) taunted the Mets during the ...

Phillies' Rotation Was the Series Difference — Bleacher Report - MLB 10/30/2008
I've known Phillies general manager Pat Gillick a long time, and I've never seen him as confident as he was before the start of the 104th World Series. Usually Gillick is just the opposite, fretting over this and that, almost paranoid. But just ...

The Philadelphia Phillies Bring It Back Home — Bleacher Report - MLB 10/30/2008
After 28 years and eight days, the Philadelphia Phillies are World Champions once again. Having been at Game Six in 1980 as a 12 year old, the feeling is a lot different almost three decades later. As a child, it seems as though this will happen ...

Phillies' Championship Is Vindicating for Some — Bleacher Report - MLB 10/30/2008
For the record: The last pitch of 2008 was a slider thrown to Eric Hinske. "I saw him swing over the top of the ball," Brad Lidge, the Phillies' closer, would recall. "Then I guess I kind of dropped down." Never has dropping to one's knees been ...

William Penn atop Philly once again — Major League Baseball News 10/30/2008
It all started in 1987, when the Liberty Place skyscraper rose higher than the statue of William Penn that sits atop City Hall. Prior to that, a gentleman's agreement had been in place, mandating that no building could exceed the height of the city's ...

World Series Postmortem: Started with the Closer — Touching Base: Fantasy Baseball File - NY Daily News Blogs 10/30/2008
When the Rays made it to the World Series, I took a look back at what I wrote about them before the season and just how wrong I was. I was more on the ball with the Phillies, whom I predicted would win the National League pennant before falling to ...