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What can I say?  It was right here in the September 30^th 2008 edition of The Knight’s Roundtable that I boldly went where no one seemingly was ready to go…..

And I quote:  “Yes the Phillies have a team that is capable of winning it all; many of the pieces are in place.  But call it a, “feeling” or a, “vibe” on my part..... I really think that a parade down Broad Street in Philadelphia just might be coming in November.”

Ok, ok…. So I was off just a little bit… I missed it by ONE DAY.  The actual parade itself went right down Broad Street last Friday on October 31^st.

For this Phillies Phan…. The roughly 8 weeks of September and October were just pure magic.  From the infamous bases loaded double play against the Nationals that locked up the National League East, to Brad Lidge striking out Eric Hinske to clinch only the 2^nd World Series in 136 years of Phillies baseball… I’m not sure it could have been scripted much better.

Yes, I had my “feeling” and my “vibe” but I never could have predicted that the Phillies would go an astonishing 11-3 in the playoffs.  While many of the games were close, the fact of the matter is that the Phillies not only won a World Series, but were dominant in doing so.

Phillies fans like me know how foreign that entire concept is!  In fact, the following is a sentence that I never saw myself typing in this lifetime:

The Philadelphia Phillies won the World Series in DOMINATING fashion.

Wow.

Last Friday I did a story that aired on CBS 21 about how tough it was to find Phillies Championship gear.  All of the local stores were completely SOLD OUT.  I really wanted the official locker room hat that all the players proudly wore upon winning the Championship. 

I won’t get a World Series ring like the players do, but in my mind, that official hat was the “poor man’s” Championship ring and I was bound and determined to get one… and get one fast.

I finally managed to track one down, and was so excited that I just had to have a photo snapped of me wearing it nearly on the spot.

Once again… a picture is worth (Werth?) a thousand words….