I Told You So

In celebrating the rightly return of baseball’s championship to the Bronx and thinking about how long it has been since the greatest franchise in professional sports history has hoisted the World Series trophy, I was reminded of Carrie Underwood’s sad lament in her hit cover of Randy Travis’ “I Told You So.”

Would you tell me that you'd missed me too and that you'd been so lonely
And you waited for the day that I returned?
And we'd live in love forever and that I'm your one and only
Or would you say the tables finally turned?
Would you say: I told you so, oh I told you so.

In that particular part of the song, a little tear sometimes begins to well in the corner of my eye. So while I am so very happy about my team’s win – and my accurate prediction that the Yankees would win in six games – I am a little sad for my Philly friends in this part of the state and Yankee haters in other parts of the world. I understand how very sad they must feel this morning and I feel for them.

NAH!

Who am I kidding?!

Whoooo …. Whooo!

The YANKEES win, theeee YANKEEEEES win!

So let me give you my top five reasons why I am having a VERY nice day this morning:

1. Winning the championship is satisfying, but smacking down that punk Jimmy Rollins and his ridiculous prediction that the Phillies would win in five adds a little icing to the cake.

2. Beating Pedro Martinez, the elderly abuser, TWICE in New York.

3. Winning with Yankee-hater Tim McCarver in the Fox TV booth grudgingly giving the Yankees “props.”

4. Knowing that Derek Jeter now only has to get two more postseason hits to catch the combined total of the first six hitters in the Phillies lineup (Rollins, Victorino, Utley, Howard, Werth and Ibanez) at 177.

5. And finally, winning one for The Boss one more time!

Have a nice winter. Better luck next year!