National League Champs!!

I don't need to rehash the glorious details of tonight's big Phillies win. The only thing we need to know is the Phillies are back in the World Series for the first time in 15 years. I still can't explain how this happened. I wrote this team off approximately 48 times throughout the course of the season. Yet, somehow, they battled back from all of the seemingly insurmountable struggles they faced during the season and clinched the National League pennant. We couldn't ask for anything better than this.

We can start to analyze the Phils chances in the World Series later. (For the record though, I think the Phils have a pretty good shot regardless of who they play. Like Mitch and Ricky Bo said in the post-game, I don't think either Tampa or Boston could take this team in a seven game series.) However, we need to live in this moment for a while and celebrate this team's huge accomplishment. Tonight, this team took the next step in removing the proverbial monkey off the collective back of this city. Let's enjoy it without reservation.

Anyway, I'm bleary-eyed, tired and downright too pumped to sit behind a keyboard and type so I don't have much else to offer tonight. We'll get into the nuts and bolts of this series as well as the World Series in the next week.

Let's go Phils!