Other Philadelphia Sports Thread X: We'll blow it next year

Remember this scene in our own stadium?



Tonight it will look more like this at Citizens Bank Park.

 

Game, set, match. Might as well put the bench players on the field tonight and let them get some valuable experience against the Evil Empire under their belts, because apparently our big names can't do shit.

 

I'm sure there are hundreds of thousands of children in third-world countries who think the Rays won the WS last year, the Cardinals won Super Bowl XLIII, the Red Wings won the '09 Stanley Cup, etc etc etc. I'm going to move to whatever country they donate these t-shirts to, so I can live in an alternate universe where my 2009 Philadelphia Phillies are the first NL team to repeat as World Series champions since the Big Red Machine.

 

But that's my point, I want to share in that same delusion.

 

it amazes me that the "loser" shirts never show up on eBay or anything. I would think there would be a good market for official merchandise for the losing team. Unless there is some sort of copyright law that prevents the donated shirts from being sold outside of the third-world countries.

 

I just got off the phone with reality, it said read the thread title and reminded me that I lived in Philly. One title per generation.

 

In high school, I had a St. Louis Cardinals World Champions 1985 shirt.

BTW, my wife got a shower gift of a red and white jumper for our first child that said:

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS
American League​

on it. I'm sure some lovely co-worker picked that up at TJ Maxx for $1.50.

 

Meh, the Phillies are just being nice and letting the Yankees win at home.

 

They want to win in front of this creep before he joins the 2009 departed list. So they took it easy on us, but scored a few runs at the end to send a message. We lose 15-1 in Game 6 and find out George Steinbrenner is the Messiah.