New York to Jimmy Rollins: We Wish We Knew How to Quit You

There's always a reporter for the local newspaper of a championship team whose job it is to cover the opponent throughout the playoffs and into the World Series. For the New York Daily News, that reporter has been Roger Rubin. Rubin's main job in covering the Series – especially a team like the Phillies – is to get an opposing player quote that will drive traffic to the site, illicit response from the sports talk radio crowd and distract people from the New York Post's ridiculous artist renderings. Usually, following the opponent during a World Series run is the bottom of the barrel for a sports writer covering the game. While all your colleagues are getting doused with champagne and grabbing quotes for stories that will be hung on cubicle walls for a year and stuffed in scrapbooks for a lifetime, you're stuck in a dejected locker room with players who aren't in any sort of mood to talk. And, frankly, the losing players don't see you every day ...