The Phillies Win the World Series!



Broad and Shunk, orig­i­nal­ly uploaded by Black­mail Is My Life.

If you were too young to remem­ber when the Phillies last won the World Series (this writer was three), this was our chance to have cham­pi­onship mem­o­ries of our own. 

I watched the game at Mem­phis Tap­room, where we toast­ed the Phils win with Bren­dan and Leigh with West­vleteren, some of the hard­est beers to find in the world, made by the cler­gy at the St. Six­tus Monas­tary in Bel­gium. Then we chant­ed, “Holy shit!”

From there I ran (lit­er­al­ly) to John­ny Bren­da’s, where I met up with friends. After cel­e­brat­ing at Girard and Frank­ford, we drove south, met anoth­er friend at Broad and Whar­ton, and marched to Broad and Shunk, the epi­cen­ter of so much Philly sports his­to­ry. You can see the crowd that gath­ered there in the pic­ture above.

It was a great night to be in Philadel­phia and a great night to be a Philadel­phi­an. Way to go, Phils! Let’s do it again next year!

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Let’s Go, Phillies!

Phillies on Cira Cen­ter., orig­i­nal­ly uploaded by Black­mail Is My Life.

Helen and I were afraid that tonight’s game might get rained out, which would’ve meant that she would miss Game 4 because she’s leav­ing for San Diego on busi­ness Monday.

When it was clear that they were going to play tonight no mat­ter what, crafty lefty Jamie Moy­er became the focus of our anx­i­ety. Would he turn in a per­for­mance like he has in his last two post­sea­son starts?

Nope.

Moy­er’s pitched a gem into the sev­enth. Ruiz, Utley, and Howard have home­red and the Phils lead 4–3 at the moment. Let’s hope they can hold on for the win!

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What I Should Be Drinking: Great Divide Hibernation Ale

Seen Through a Glass: Great Divide Hiber­na­tion Ale.

I need to walk around the cor­ner some­time soon and try one of these. Leave it to Lew to tell me some­thing that I did­n’t know was hap­pen­ing in my own backyard!

(By the way, I’m writ­ing this via Word­Press’s “Press This” book­marklet. I’ve already admon­ished them about its short­com­ings via Twit­ter. They’ve let me know that they have more in store for this fea­ture. I’m hop­ing that they’ll unleash a Tum­blr-esque book­marklet that lets me go wild!)

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