Found October 20, 2009 on The Recliner GM: Yardbarker Blogger Network
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I'll keep this up to talk about Game 5 today and tomorrow during the game, but I think last night's game deserves a couple more words. Last night I didn't go crazy. I didn't run around my house and yell and scream like I did exactly one year ago when Matt Stairs blistered Jonathan Broxton. Instead, I just sat on my couch with a dumbfounded smile on my face. It wasn't that I couldn't believe it happened, it was that I was just so grateful to this Phillies team for giving us fans so many unique moments in the past 3 years. After all those years of last-place teams, followed by all those years of soul-crushing close calls where we just couldn't get to the playoffs, I think there were many of us who thought we were somehow being punished for something. We couldn't just lose or fall short, we'd have to find new and more depressing ways to do so. They would string us on until the very last week, and then drop a series to the Reds, or have an unstoppab...
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