These apples need to be turned into apple pies or muffins or maybe applesauce.Ken Rosenthal, Seth Everett, and Jayson Stark are my favorite national guys on baseball, not that I see their work on a regular basis. Following the Phillies' winning the NL championship, Rosenthal wrote a funny, eloquent piece for his Fox blog. In it he wrote that the Cubs should be embarrassed for not winning even one game against "Manny and the Miniatures", aka the Dodgers. That phrase does pretty much sum up how the softy Dodgers played. I knew in game 1 that the Phillies were virtually assured of winning the series: After Utley hit his 2-run homer in the 6th to tie the game, the Dodgers just wilted. I mean, the Phillies had only tied the game but the Dodgers looked totally undone. Then of course in game 5, of the two 24-year-olds starting against each other, one again crumbled and was driven from the game in the 3rd. (His manager later said he was "sensitive.") The other went on to become MVP of the series. Guess who got most of the national hype before the game? Yep, the loser.
