<p>Is anyone else as excited as I am about our Phillies?!!! Wooo HOOO!</p>
<p>Yes!!! Way to go, Phillies!!!</p>
<p>I’ve been waiting a LOOOONG time for this!!! I think the parade’s Friday. I’ll be on Broad Street. Love this team!</p>
<p>PHINALLY!!! Yea Phillies. I remember the 1993 World Series. I finished the Columbus Marathon wearing a Phillies cap (it didn’t help).</p>
<p>WooHoo Phillies Win!! I guess I’ll be taking a vacation day on Friday to go to the PARADE!!</p>
<p>Yay! I was rooting for them… :)</p>
<p>Ohhhhhhh Yeahhhhh!!!</p>
<p>I’ve been a die-hard Phillies fan since I moved out-of-state to Philadelphia for college back in 1971. I moved far, far away from Philly in 1983, but… once a Phillies fan, always a Phillies fan.</p>
<p>My daughter (who loves baseball) is now attending my alma mater, Temple University. She called me long distance tonight just before the game started, and then again right after the Phillies won. She was already outside her dorm and down on Broad Street. People were screaming and cheering so loudly that I could barely hear her, even though she was bellowing into the phone. She told me that she was among a big group of students walking down Broad Street from Temple to City Hall to celebrate. </p>
<p>My daughter is happy. I am happy.</p>
<p>Congratulations Phillies! Congratulations Phillies fans! Congratulations Philadelphia!</p>
<p>Nice job!
and to think my D wouldnt let Jamie Moyer sign her mitt- she even pulled it out of his hands)
( she wanted Randy Johnson instead)
:o</p>
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<p>Yayyyyyyyyyyyy go TU!!! Where are you guys from? The campus and city were absolutely beyond insane. It was a ton of fun and excitement for sure :)</p>
<p>To TUOwls2011: Congratulations! You sound absolutely ecstatic!</p>
<p>As to where my daughter and I are from… my family has some privacy issues, so I’ve kept that (and some other personal details) quiet here on CC. I’ll just say that I was born and grew up elsewhere, then moved there (Philadelphia), and then moved here. My daughter was born here, and now goes to school there. (My family has lived in two other cities, as well; we’ve moved around like gypsies.) </p>
<p>When my daughter’s Other Parent and I accompanied her to Philadelphia for the first time this August, it was my first time back in Philly in 25 years, and I felt right at home again. I wanted to take my daughter to a Phillies game, but her Temple Move-In, Orientation, and Registration schedules were too tight, and then classes started. She’ll have to go on her own or with friends when the 2009 season starts. </p>
<p>Congratulations again, TUOwls2011. Celebrate!</p>
<p>I have lived in in Philadelphia my entire life. I don’t understand why anybody cares about professional athletes who will make more in a year than most people will in a lifetime.</p>
<p>bah humbug</p>
<p>I am a Mets fan but I work with a lot of Phillie fans so I was rooting for them. One coworker has 2 young sons that have had some special father-son bonding during the playoffs.</p>
<p>Being a fan brings both joy and misery. Another coworker told me his daughter came down from her room one Sunday in tears. She said why did you make me an Eagles fan.</p>
<p>What do Billy Graham and the Philadelphia Eagles have in common? </p>
<p>They both can make a stadium filled with 70,000 people jump to their feet and scream “Jesus Christ!”</p>
<p>Actually, I have heard that joke with the Mets plugged in in place of the Eagles. Needless to say the Phillies should give Billy Wagner a World Series ring (or maybe two since he can’t play next year either)</p>
<p>Phillies really took charge of the Series. Congrats to all you fans! Enjoy!</p>
<p>Ed Wade is the greatest GM in Phillies history. If it wasn’t for his masterful trade of Brad Lidge where would we be. I still think that Tampa ran out of gas, nevertheless, PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES are the World Champions. Everybody’s invited for tomorrow’s parade down Broad Street.</p>
<p>I don’t understand why anybody cares about professional athletes who will make more in a year than most people will in a lifetime</p>
<p>because IMO- how much you earn or how much you don’t earn is not how you are defined- or valued.
put spirit, hard work and courage into what you do and others will appreciate it.
:)</p>
<p>I grew up in Philly but do not live there now. My brother who still lives in the area went to the final game (in two parts) and so it was really exciting for him to be there as a lifelong Phillies fan. Unfortunately, my other brother, who lives in Alaska, and is an ardent Phillies fan had to miss it despite being in Philly just ten days prior due to our mom’s passing. But my brother got him all the papers to send to Alaska with the headlines. </p>
<p>Back when I was married in grad school in Boston, my dad had tix to the World Series for the Phillies and my husband and I went to Philly to see the final game of the series and we saw the Phillies win it in 1980. (I also saw the Flyers win their first Stanley Cup when I was in HS). I honestly don’t follow sports now that much and live in a state (VT) that has no national teams. But when i did a college visit with one of my Ds, we were in Boston and she was staying in a dorm of a friend and I was in a hotel and that night the Red Sox won (it was either the pennant or the series) and the crowds and hoopla all night right where we were was quite something. </p>
<p>So, for old times sake…Yay Phils!</p>
<p>Awesome job by the Phillies!! Fun to watch the team after the game. It was nice to see Chase Utley smile - and Charlie Manual was SOOO happy ( I liked how he said his mom would have “laughed and giggled”).<br>
My s wants to come home with some buddies for the parade tomorrow. Hey, this might not happen again for a while…who knows??</p>
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<p>The same reason I dont understand how you can drive a car worth less than my tires.</p>