Soggy Victory

The Philadelphia Phillies won the World Series this evening, resuming Game 5 of the series after a two-day rain delay, conditions getting too wet on the field in the middle of the 6th inning in the game on Monday. The Phillies have been around as a team for 126 years and have only won the World Series once before, in 1980. Indeed, the Phillies have lost more games over their history than any other professional sports team (something like 10,098 games at last count).

I am happiest most of all for Jamie Moyer, the soft-throwing Phillies pitcher who after 22 seasons in the majors finally gets a World Series ring. Age and guile beats youth and strength and all that — Moyer is just about to turn 46. He grew up a Phillies fan near Philadelphia, and when the team won the series in 1980, he skipped out on school to go to the victory parade! Now he will be in the Phillies’ second such parade.