Go Time.

After a long, grueling regular season, a tough-as-nails, gut-check post season, and a painful, twiddle your thumbs layoff, it's finally here.  We are exactly where we hoped we'd be, preparing to play the game we wanted to play, and facing the team we always hoped we'd face.  

For the last two years the Phillies have only ever lost one game in any of their playoff series.  I don't think I'm going to far out on a limb to venture that that'll be stopping here.  This series will be a battle, a gritty grind-it-out chessmatch, and, for the Phillies, a true test.  If this series goes poorly for the Phils, they'll be remembered as a great team- a truly memorable team.  If the Phils take this series and run with it (as we know full well that they will) then we are talking epic, we are talking all time, we are talking best ever.

I remember wondering after last years World Series victory how the team could possibly top that magical and memorable season.  Well how do these storylines sound to you?  

The 2008 World Champion Phillies return to the 2009 Series to succesfully defend their title against the evil empire Yankees!  

Mid season pickup and staff ace Cliff Lee wins two world series games to be named 2009 World Series MVP!!

Brad Lidge, after a regular season filled with frustration and disappointment, reemerges in the post season to lead the Phillies to a championship!!!

Watching this Phillies team over the course of this year I don't just feel like they can make these hopes into reality, I really believe that they will.