Kelly's Phillies Bedroom: Kelly Bloor, 27, turned her bedroom into a Phillies shrine featuring a Chase Utley couch with his life-sized face casting those cool hitter's eyes around the room, artificial-turf carpeting and a closet in which only her Phightin's wardrobe hangs. "I cannot wait for the parade!" she said. Kelly rocks!
Jerry Makes Phriends: Jerry Marshall, 41, deaf since birth and a Drexel University restaurant worker for the past 20 years, walked into the Daily News wearing his Ryan Howard jersey and could hardly hold his pen still long enough to write on a pad:
"3rd Game! McFadden's! TV! Many friends!"
So, if you're in McFadden's pub at the Bank tomorrow, say hi to Marshall. He loves his Phillies as much as he loves seeing strangers become pals.
Phillies in Heaven: Upper Darby native Evy Petrone, 77, who has been a phan since her Shibe Park childhood and who now lives in Ocean City, N.J., called to read a poem that her son Marc, a South Philly doctor, wrote her as a World Series gift:
"Imagine, if you will, the scene in heaven . . .
A sea of red for the Best of Seven . . .
Whitey, Pope, Tugger and the Vuke . . .
Front-row seats next to Marzano and St. Luke . . .
Believe in their power as we pound the Rays . . .
For heaven is red this October's final days . . . "
"Marc's father is also up in heaven," Petrone said. "So I know the Phillies are going to win for him, too."
How big a Phils phan is she? "Remember when they played the 1980 World Series and Tugger [Tug McGraw] used to slap his leg all the time?" she said. "Well, I actually had a hand mark on my thigh from smacking my leg right along with him."
Hit Man for Howard: Chestnut Hill native Jaime "The Swing Mechanic" Cevallos is a Phillies diehard who now teaches batting technique to the pros, including the Rays' red-hot late-season hitter Ben Zobrist.
