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Broad Street Billy: Fans at Mac's Tavern send our Phils some sunny vibes

BROAD STREET Billy watched Game 4 last night at Mac's Tavern on Market Street near 2nd - the pub owned by stars from "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."

BROAD STREET Billy watched Game 4 last night at Mac's Tavern on Market Street near 2nd - the pub owned by stars from "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."

It was sunny until the ninth inning, when the Giants sent the bar crowd home under the dark cloud of a 6-5 loss that has the Phils on the verge of elimination.

MOM KNEW '80 PHILS: Ryan Kanofsky, who lives across the street from Mac's Tavern, said his mom, Joyce Kanofsky, got into the Phils in 1980 - when she lived in an apartment house on the Ben Franklin Parkway, and several of the 1980 World Series Champions were her neighbors.

When the Phils tied it, 5-5, in the 8th, Kanofsky's mom texted, "My heart is pumping! I'm up and down and can't sit still!"

As last night's roller coaster exacted its emotional toll, Kanofsky said, "I can't take this." But he stayed to the bitter 6-5 end because, like his mom, the Phillies are in his blood.

TIGHT PANTS: Abby Scattergood, Jill Fleischer and Christine Hofnagel from Center City admitted they had ulterior motives in rooting for the Fightins.

"I first got into the Phillies in '93 - the guys with all those mullets?" Scattergood said, laughing. "Dykstra. Daulton. It was a phase."

"Yeah, a phase," Hofnagel said. "But it lasted into her 20s."

"I still have residual mullet love," Scattergood admitted. "You think Dutch Daulton reads the Daily News?"

"So how about these Phillies?" Billy asked, nodding at the TV.

"We love the Phillies," Hofnagel said, "because we're here to watch tight pants with pinstripes."

"Not like the Giants," Scattergood said. "We're not into ballplayers who look like they're wearing pajamas."

MOM'S A DIEHARD: Friends Ed Hennessey of Phoenixville and Fred Mundt of Long Valley, N.J., kept in touch by cell phone with Mundt's mom, Helen, trading game analysis as Mundt always does when the Phils play.

"Our families vacation together every summer in Cape May Point [N.J]," Hennessey said. "We come home from the beach, have Happy Hour, get the grill going - and his mom times it all so we can watch the Phillies game."

"Every game is like life and death to her," Mundt said. In the fifth inning, the Phils suddenly started to play like the game was life and death to them, too. The friends immediately messaged Mundt's mom.