At least they have their pumpkins

The Phillies are out of the post season and some fans are screaming about improving the team, while other are taking their frustrations out in different ways. Today my friend sent me a photo of his Phillies pumpkin and its not that bad. At least he is using his frustration in a good way and not call sports radio for support.
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World Series Game 5 Cover Story

The Phillies beat the Yankees last night in Game 5 of the World Series to send the series back to New York for Game 6 on Wednesday night. Here is how the newspapers in each city over the action from last night.

Metro (Philadelphia)

The Philadelphia Daily News
The New York Post

The New York Daily News

Cover Story: Game 2 of the World Series

So Yankees fans around the world are happy, Yankees last night evened the World Series at 1-1 heading to Philly for Game 3 on Halloween night.

Here is out the newspapers in the two markets covered the game:

Philly Daily News

Bucks County Courier Times

New York Post

New York Daily News

The Cover Story: World Series Game 1

The performances of Cliff Lee and Chase Utley wrote the headline the for newspapers in Philadelphia and New York after Game 1 of the World Series. The front pages in the two markets told very different stories.

Philadelphia Daily News

Bucks County Courier Times

New York Post

New York Daily News

Did I miss something?

For a World Series Champion, the Phillies are getting very little respect from the New York media. The Post takes it to a new level below. Are the Phillies the most disrespected defending World Series champions ever. No one is giving then any credit for what they have done over the last two seasons.

New York Post

New York Daily News

A Tale of Two Cities

At the start of the year, the Mets and Phillies were supposed to battle to the end for the NL East crown, but that has not happened. Just take a look at the back pages of the Philly Daily News (left) and the New York Daily News (right) and the story will be told.

The Phillies are talking about if they want to give up Kyle Drabek in a deal for Toronto ace Roy Halladay, while the Mets have a fine mess built around attacks on beat writer and a executive who wanted to fight a group of minors leagues.

The two front pages could not better tell the story of the two teams different stories. The Phillies are trying for back to back World Series titles, while the Mets are just trying to get people to take them seriously.

Remembering Joe and Mitch

1993 is more then 15 years ago, but at the Rogers Center in Toronto it seems like just yesterday that Joe Carter took Mitch Williams deep into the night to win the World Series. Last week during my trip to Toronto I took a walk around the Blue Jays Shop at the Rogers Center and the moment is still all over the place.

A pillar at the shop features newspapers from that day

An action figure of the moment that Carter made Phillies fans cry. I thought about getting one for my friends over at Sox and Phils, but thought better of it.

Its one of the iconic World Series moments and in Toronto and Philly they are never going to forget it for very different reasons.

Professional Tailgating: Rings Rings Rings

The game was dramatic, but all of the fans at Citizens Bank Ballpark Wednesday showed up for one reason to see the World Champions get their jewelry.

The Rings arrive in the stadium


The starting lineup of the Game 5 of the World Series is given their rings. Gotta love the way the fans treated Pat Burrell.

Professional Tailgating: Bling Bling edition

Instead of working on Wednesday, Only Time Will Tell decided to head over to Citizens Bank Park for the Phillies Ring Day. To some getting their ring is the first time that a player can really say that they are World Champions and Phillies showed that rally from seven runs down to win 12-11.

Former Red Sox's World Series Hero Derek Lowe throws between starts

Japanese Media, who is following Braves picture Kenshin Kawakami, hangout around the bullpen before the game.

Harry K throws out the first pitch before the rings are given out

The Phillies World Series rings arrive.

Brad Lidge wraps up the Phillies first win of the season.

Everything has Championship Logos on it

A walk around any store in the southern part of the state and you will see everything from hats, shirts, shoes, bumper stickers, and soda cans with Phillies World Series Champions logo, yes soda cans. I was walking around the local Shoprite with the wife and came across this sitting on the end cap, yes a championship logo on a soda can.

It takes me back to the days of the Wolf pack soda, I had. The soda remembered the great NC State basketball team that beat Houston in the National Championship game. Nothing says celebrating a championship like soda.

Phinally!

A couple of years ago, comedian Bill Burr did a set during the Opie and Anthony Comedy Festival about how the Phillies would never win anything because their uniforms look like candy stripers , well last night, Mr. Burr was wrong. The Phillies are World Series Champions, yes that sounds weird but true. Congrats to all of the Phillie fans out their and especially my friends at Sox and Phils.

Here is how the front pages covered the dramatic events last night:

The Philadelphia Inquirer

The Philadelphia Daily News

The Morning Call (PA)

The Tampa Tribune

The Tampa Tribune

Are you serious?

Wait the Rays are in the World Series. All of those number one picks came together and won the ALCS over the Red Sox. Here is how papers in both Tampa and Boston cover the dramatic night at the Trop.

The Bradenton Herald

Tampa Bay Times

The Tampa Tribune

The Boston Globe

The Enterprise