Top 12 Consolations For Phillies Fans

12) With any luck, you won't ever have to watch Chad Durbin in the laundry again

11) You really wanted to put your full attention on the Eagles' season anyway

10) Fox and MLB are going to make about a third of what they were hoping to make from a Rangers-Giants World Series

9) As ESPN's Bill Simmons notes, it's very, very important that the games happen in a ballpark that's pretty, so you should feel better about the games being in Pac Bell, rather than Citizens Bank

8) It's not as if this still isn't the best era ever to be a Phillies fan

7) You won't have to watch Cliff Lee torture your team in the next round

6) The NL East is still their bitch

5) You can safely ignore the Fox / Cablevision dispute now

4) Less time with Joe Buck and Tim McCarver isn't exactly a problem

3) No matter what a set of George Bush, Tom Hicks and insufferable rednecks (or Barry Bonds, Nany Pelosi and insufferable yuppies) will be crushed

2) With the WS games being on Central and Pacific time, they'll be even easier to ignore

1) As someone who counts Terence Long's stare at a called strike to end a series as one of the worst moments of his life as a sports fan can attest, it's not as if a season-ending strike call at home from a reliever who is struggling with his control will produce any long-term bitterness