First and foremost, absolute congratulations to one of my favorites off all time; Mark Recchi, on getting his name etched onto the holy grail of hockey for the 3rd time. It's a shame it never happened in Philly, but I still have the utmost respect for him over every player in the game today. Congratulations to the Boston Bruins, who outright deserved and outworked the rest of the NHL on their way to the Stanley Cup Championship.
It hurts knowing that the 0-3 comeback doesn't quite have the luster that it did 2 hours ago, but you can't take anything away from how well this team played top to bottom.
It's worth noting, some of Philadelphia's last playoff runs;
Flyers - Lost to Boston (Champions)
Sixers - Lost to Heat (East Champions)
Eagles - Lost to Packers (Champions)
Phillies - Lost to Giants (Champions)
Flyers - Lost to Chicago (Champions)
Eagles - Lost to Dallas (sucks)
Phillies - Lost to New York (Champions)
All that put aside, I will not sleep easy knowing Boston has won 7 championships this decade.
But now onto the Phillies. What a day for this team. First game was of utmost dominance, and quite an impressive start by Kyle Kendrick. Time to stop making jokes about this kid until he blows up again, cause he's putting together some good numbers this year. And it's about time he does so.
The offense is finally clicking. Halladay has one of his "bad" starts (7ip, 4 runs on 6 hits, 8k's), but the team went out and got the job done when it counted. Timely hits has finally entered this teams vocabulary, and they are finally playing with some swag (not to be cliche)
Not much more can be said. When everything is going right for this team, you got to just sit back, relax, and watch every at bat this team has, because something special could happen the very next pitch.
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