Phillies: World Series Bound
Wow! Profunksticated is a happy dude once again. My Philadelphia Phillies are going to Major League Baseball’s World Series. They earned the berth representing the National League by beating the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-1, giving them a four-games-to-one win in the best of seven series.
Now the Phillies await the winner of the Tampa Bay Rays-Boston Red Sox American League Championship Series. Tampa Bay is up by three games to one over Boston. The Rays, who play their home games in an unspeakably ugly domed stadium in St. Petersburg, Florida (my brother, older son and nephews attended a game there in 2004), could wrap their series up with a win tonight.
Last night’s win marks the first time the Phillies will have played in the World Series since 1993, when they lost to the Toronto Blue Jays. This is only the sixth time they’ve played in the Fall Classic in their entire 125-year history. Good luck to the Phils.
What can I say? I’ve been watching baseball daggone near my whole life. I’m disheartened by the game’s waning popularity among young African Americans in the past couple of decades. However, the Phillies have two African American stars, Jimmy Rollins and Ryan Howard, who were the National League’s Most Valuable Players in 2007 and 2006, respectively. I’m especially happy for those guys. Perhaps they will inspire more young black American kids to take up baseball once again.
Shortstop Jimmy Rollins
First Baseman Ryan Howard
