UNCORK THE BOTTLES, STRAP ON YOUR GOGGLES: Four straight NL East titles. Four straight seasons under Charlie Manuel winning more games than the previous season. From 48-46 and 7 GB in late July to 46-18 since, including a giddy 11-game streak in September besting all four division rivals and soundly putting away the Braves.
Tonight, the Phillies clinched it at their home away from home, Nationals Park, in front of a boisterous Amtrak'd crowd, and who better than Roy Halladay to be there on the mound at the end? Another CG (9th), another shutout (4th), another no-walk game (13th), and surely another Cy Young Award, his second.
One reader of The700Level.com put it better than I ever could, late last year: "You follow sports hoping that one day you'll be rewarded and get to root for a team like these Phillies." Indeed. Our WFCs are in October, one more time, and we want it all. Eleven to go.
