Monday, September 27, 2010

Top 10 takeaways from the Phillies' fourth straight NL East crown

10) Upon further review, no one in town thinks that Cliff Lee is better than Roy Halladay, assuming, of course, that Roy doesn't suck in the playoffs

9) The fact that you've probably heard more about people getting tased at their games this year really should tell you something

8) Between the Blue Jays playing a "home" series in Philadelphia and Nationals Park acting as Philly South, the team played the most home games in MLB history

7) Not to demean the accomplishment, but this division hasn't exactly been filled with model franchises or competent humans

6) By trading for Halladay and picking up Mike Sweeney this year and Matt Stairs before, they are doing everything they can to share the playoff experience with dispirited veterans

5) At this point, John Lannan and the Nationals should just change their names to Red Klotz and the Generals

4) The team has their most wins in September since the 1983 Wheeze Kids, which is oddly unsettling, given how that season ended

3) Since the team keeps winning every year without resorting to steroid users or head cases, they are becoming increasingly hated by the town's sports talk radio industry

2) This further cements the fact that this is the best era ever to be a Phillies fan, and it's really not even close

1) If the Phillies just do this for another five or six years, and win 2-3 more World Series, this might be a baseball town again

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