No one, absolutely no one, will find it surprising to hear that I found your avatar a little presumptuous a while back, but now I can officially say (I always wanted to) that it is the awesomest, awesomest ever.
Let me explain one thing to people... in January 2003, the Eagles were playing some sort of football game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. All week prior to the game, the talk was about the cold weather and how Tampa would lose if they got down early. Of course, the recent history between Tampa and the Eagles definitely favored the Eagles. So, when the game finally rolls around, what happens? The Eagles' Brian Mitchell nearly takes the opening kickoff back to the house, and then, on the very first play from scrimmage, Duce Staley completes what Mitchell started, registering a 15 yard TD run.
And me, I stand up and scream "GAME OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" because I'd bought the hype about how bad it would be for Tampa to get down early. There was 59:40 of football left to play.
We all know how that ended.
And now, finally, I get to forgive my own presumption. And I can be less worried about everyone else's. I know it's crazy.
YAY '08 PHILLIES PHOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"I'm in a bar with the games sound turned off and that Cespedes home run still sounded like inevitability."
It really is great though because Wheels has been a Phils fan since he was 8 years old too, just like most of us. Hilarious reaction though. It just got really weird around the 6 second mark when he went up to clap and then just started pumping again. WHEELS FTW