They just showed what I consider to be an interesting stat on the baseball pre-game show tonight. The Phillies are appearing in their 6th World Series this year. They've won once, against the Kansas City Royals (1980) and lost 4 times, going into this year's match-up with the Tampa Bay Rays. Those 4 losing trips to the championship saw them defeated by the Red Sox (1915), the Yankees (1950), Baltimore (1983) and Toronto (1993)... all of whom, of course, make up four-fifths of the current American League East. The other one-fifth of that division? That would be the team from Tampa who the Phillies are up against this year!
If the Rays win it all in 2008, then I'd suggest that Phillies fans in the future expend all their energy hoping for World Series contestants to come from any division in the AL except the East!
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