South Jersey wins World Series

WOOOOO!!!!!! (4.00 / 2)

AHHHHHH! I'm so excited, and yes...I'm totally freaking out. In a good way.

Cole Hamels named MVP....couldn't find anyone who deserves it more!

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by: Brian McGinnis @ Thu Oct 30, 2008 at 02:46:06 AM UTC

A friend (4.00 / 1)

texted me from a local bar here in South Jersey...it was just one word, "Pandemonium!"

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by: Brian McGinnis @ Thu Oct 30, 2008 at 02:46:37 AM UTC

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Obama wins too (4.00 / 3)

I can't imagine Obama could have planned it better.  In a state where the McCain campaign is "making their last stand", Obama ran a half hour commercial on the lead in to the Phillies clinching the World Series.

Imagine the viewership at the start of that game tonight, which was actually the middle of the game.   People were prob tuning into the pregame show or the start of the game and would have caught some portion of the Obama half hour.

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by: Jason Springer @ Thu Oct 30, 2008 at 03:26:36 AM UTC

And don't forget Tampa too (4.00 / 1)

People were all eyes and ears in the swing state of Florida, too, I'm betting!

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by: Brian McGinnis @ Thu Oct 30, 2008 at 03:28:11 AM UTC

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Great point (0.00 / 0)

couple the Tampa viewership w/ the Clinton-Obama rally which will be front page of the paper tomorrow and it's a good Obama day in Florida.

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by: Jason Springer @ Thu Oct 30, 2008 at 03:34:51 AM UTC

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MyDD on Philadelphia viewership (0.00 / 0)

Pretty impressive:

Nearly a third of television households in the Philadelphia market tuned into the Obama event immediately preceding the World Series, making the market Obama's second best for the evening.

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by: Jason Springer @ Thu Oct 30, 2008 at 20:47:56 PM UTC

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"Eagles stuff" (4.00 / 1)

It's the true definition of whether you're in south Jersey or not - if there's equal numbers of NY Giants junk to Eagles in your neighborhood, you live in the center of central NJ - if it's all Eagles all the time, you are in the South. And yes, the Phillies track the same way, though baseball fans aren't quite so big on tagging their territory (at least in my experience).

Though for a born NYC Jersey raised sports noncombatant like myself, who works and in a day or two will live in Philadelphia, I do hate it when the Philly team wins ... the fans are SO over the top!

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by: denniscmcgrath @ Thu Oct 30, 2008 at 12:16:04 PM UTC

The parade (0.00 / 0)

will be tomorrow at noon, going down Broad Street from Market to the stadiums!

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by: Brian McGinnis @ Thu Oct 30, 2008 at 12:27:21 PM UTC

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go early (0.00 / 0)

expect to stay late. take mass transit, it is going to be absolute pandemonium. one of my more Phillies-besotted coworkers was in here a couple of minutes ago telling me he was seriously contemplating renting an RV which he could drive to the stadium parking lot well in advance of the festivities, camp out until the party started, then stay in it until he could drive off unimpeded after the parade and all is over. Really. It's gonna be nutty. There isn't enough money in the world to get me in a crowd that big, not after seeing the Grateful Dead with 400,000 of my closest friends in Englishtown in 1977.

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by: denniscmcgrath @ Thu Oct 30, 2008 at 12:47:00 PM UTC

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Dennis, I was thinking of you (0.00 / 0)

when I wrote the line.  


Frank LoBiondo Record and Jon Runyan Watch

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by: Hopeful @ Thu Oct 30, 2008 at 20:44:18 PM UTC

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follow-up (0.00 / 0)

per eagles vrs. giants stuff.

I had dinner last Saturday night at the Charlie Brown's on Rt. 9 in Forked River. Phone book gives it as Lacey, but it's Forked River. Deep, deep in Ocean county, exit 67 or thereabouts on the Parkway.

The bartendress and two of the waitresses were wearing #10 Eli Manning Giants jerseys. Not an Eagles thang to be seen anywhere.

Which is exactly what I would expect. Forked River is well above Tuckerton, the traditional southern end of the Keith Line (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_line) which traditionally divides West from East Jersey (or south from North).

Had we been in Egg Harbor township, I would have expected to see restaurant workers wearing Donovan McNabb Eagles gear.

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by: denniscmcgrath @ Wed Nov 12, 2008 at 15:01:50 PM UTC

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Hmmm (0.00 / 0)

The last time the Phillies won the world series was 1980, just before Reagan was elected.

Insert comment here.  

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by: Jeff Gardner @ Thu Oct 30, 2008 at 15:30:42 PM UTC

Bookends (4.00 / 2)

Bookends of a profoundly regrettable era in American politics.

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by: Dvd Avins @ Thu Oct 30, 2008 at 18:18:12 PM UTC

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I chase utley (0.00 / 0)

and i'll do it again next seasoN!

activist for hire.

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by: Jay Lassiter @ Thu Oct 30, 2008 at 19:05:59 PM UTC

hmmm ... (0.00 / 0)

the mascot of Trenton's minor league baseball team is named Chase, too ... he's a golden retriever.

Woof? :)

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by: denniscmcgrath @ Thu Oct 30, 2008 at 19:19:30 PM UTC

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