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WHEN I'M KING of the world . . .
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CLIFF LEE had just given up a first-inning run. That's like Tim McGraw starting off "I like It, I Love It" with a belch. It's like a Charlie Manuel sentence without an "At the same time" to bridge conflicting ideas.
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Bill Conlin: Ghosts of World Series past haunt Phillies
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ELIMINATION. It is the biggest word in baseball's minimalist lexicon. And the baddest. For the runner-up in the most grueling journey in team sports, there truly is no tomorrow. The night you lose for the fourth time in a World Series, there is an exquisitely painful finality. The winners half-drown themselves in champagne, most of it spray
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IN A WORLD SERIES comparison, a Tale of the Tape tradition dating to 1903 has matched the combatants by position.
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Bill Conlin: Manuel's champs have it all over Green's
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Bill Conlin: Twenty-nine years to the night that Tug McGraw flung both arms skyward in a joyous leap, then turned to await Mike Schmidt's airborne arrival, the 1980 Muleskinner stood on the mound.
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WHAT A DIFFERENCE a night makes, 24 little hours and six fewer runs. But the champagne will be on ice tomorrow night nevertheless with a home clinching in order.
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THE NFL has the Wildcat. Not to be outdone, MLB has enlivened the National and American League Championship Series with the Wildthrow.
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BEFORE THERE WAS Black Friday - Oct. 7, 1977 - the Phillies endured Soggy Saturday and Sunless Sunday. Sunday was the day general manager Paul Owens and manager Danny Ozark learned the real difference between a team that would win 101 games for the second straight season and a Los Angeles Dodgers team of similar talents.
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Bill Conlin: Phillies' manager's moves could go down in infamy
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WILL TERRIBLE Thursday be remembered by Phillies fans as a pitching version of 1977's Black Friday? The question hangs like a cloud of frozen breath in a walk-in freezer after an excruciating, 5-4 loss to the Colorado Rockies. It will be answered this weekend in a Denver ballpark where the fans will turn blue long before those mountains on a chilling Coors can.
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Bill Conlin: Phillies were in their element - wind and all
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IT WAS THE DAY the ghost of Candlestick Park came to South Philly. The Hawk that rushed off the Pacific, funneling through a gap in the Coast Range and rushing downhill off a steep bluff buttressing the worst ballpark in major league history showed up in The Bank, helter-skelter hot-dog wrappers and all. The only thing missing was 50,000 empty seats.
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ON THE EVE of the wild roller-coaster ride of another major league baseball season, it seemed like a conservative pick: Phillies threepeat as National League East champions. Ninety-seven victories seemed about right.
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Bill Conlin: Phillies clinch, now it's time for a laugh
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WHEN I'M KING of the World . . . Permission to exhale will be granted when the magic number reaches one . . . However, gallows humor will be banned once the lead of a first-place team is shrinking more rapidly than the magic number . . . Heard this gallows-humor classic on the grapevine
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