Rooting is following, and I don’t do that, but I’d like to see the Phillies win because I love Philadelphia. -Steve Carlton
Public Service Announcement: Ok, here we go! That’s right, call me Jimmy Rollins. Call me Ishamel. You can call me anything you like, but ya doesn’t have to call me Johnson. Heck, you can call me that too, see if I care. All I know is, I’m with J-Roll on this one. Rollins said the Phillies will win the World Series in five games. While I’m not so sure about the five games bit, I’m pretty sure about the rest.
Tonight the the Philadelphia Phillies will attempt to to boldly go where no National League team has gone before. At least not in in recent years. And they’re just the team to do it. Philadelphia has returned 17 players from their World Series roster but made some moves too. Big moves. Important moves. Raul Ibanez moves. Cliff Lee moves. Pedro Martinez moves. Moves that make them a formidable foe for the seemingly indomitable Yankees.
The Phillies will win because they can hit. Hit a little bit. Hit like nothing the Yankees have seen thus far. Hit like they did throughout the playoffs. Hit like going yard in every game of this here post season. That’s right, the Phillies have gone yard in each of their last eight games. That includes all five games against the Dodgers. The only other team to go yard in each game of a National League Championship Series of at least five games was the 2004 Astros. How about that?
How about this? In the NLCS clincher against the Dodgers, Jayson Werth gave the Phillies the lead with a three-run bomb in the bottom of the first. It was the third straight game that the Fightins scored two or more runs in the first inning. Know this: The 1989 Cubs are the only other team with a streak of that length in a League Championship Series.
Know this too: Chase Utley walked in the first inning to extend his streak of reaching base safely in postseason games to 25. That ties the Orioles’ Boog Powell for the longest such streak in postseason history. Utley has reached base in every postseason game he has played with the exception of his postseason debut.
I know the man says good pitching beats good hitting every time. I know the man says you’re only as good your next starter. I also know what another man says. Earl Weaver says, “The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals and three run homers.” The Phillies have enough pitching to go along with plenty of fundamentals and three run homers.
If somebody besides A-Rod does not start hitting, the Yankees will not beat these Phillies. No how. No way. Ryan Howard, Chase Utley, Jimmy Rollins, Carlos Ruiz, Jason Werth, Raul Ibanez, Shane Victorino, Pedro Feliz, Cliff Lee: Nine players on the field functioning as one single unit. Team, team, team. No one more important that the other. The Fight, Fight, Fight-in Phils! It’s a tough, tough, team to beat. They’re out to win, win ev-’ry day. Every victory is sweet!
Public Spectacle:
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Peace out homies. Six two and Even!
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Call you Jimmy rollins? how bout cake eater? jimmy Rollins is a coat tail riding cake eater, he hit .250 this year and is hitting under that in the playoffs. He's ridin coat tails I tell ya, and eatin cake while he's doin it.
Ive seen your man crushes before, Manny, Ovechkin, Pearse, the hebrew hammer and Tom Brady, but Rollins? Gotta stop you rite there buddy
i have no crush on j-roll. i just agree with the man. ryan howard perhaps. pedro most definitely. but not jimmy rollins