Why can't it just be a matter of time before the Sixers bring home an NBA championship?
Go on Philadelphia, dream, and be greedy because anything is possible now.
The Phillies proved that last night in Citizens Bank Park when they beat the Tampa Bay Rays, 4-3, and won the 104th World Series.
It wasn't quite 10 p.m. when "The Curse" ended.
When Brad Lidge got Tampa Bay Rays pinch-hitter Eric Hinske waving helplessly at that nasty slider, the Phillies not only became World Series champions but they opened the door to an endless possibility of encores for the Philadelphia franchises.
As Ryan Howard ran around the field waving that huge 2008 championship banner while a sold-out, frenzied crowd of Philadelphia fans sang in unison, "We are the Champions," a quarter-century of frustration, 100 combined seasons of heartache were washed into the Delaware River.
This morning, the whole area and everyone across the country and the world who cheer for Philadelphia teams wake up a changed fan base.
They can dream of championships without the splinter stabbing in the back corner of the mind that something is always going to go wrong. The Phillies shoved away that negative cloud that has hovered so heavily over this city for so long.
With a 4-3 victory in Game 5 and a 4-1 series victory over the game Rays, the Phillies proved that Philadelphia could indeed be home again to a major professional sports champion.
"I think when we come back when we're all old and retired," World Series MVP Cole Hamels said, when asked what the magnitude of what they did for this city will really sink in. "When we come back and they still stand up and give us standing ovations just like they do for the guys from the 1980 World Series.
