Oh Happy Day!  Just in case you haven't heard - The Philadelphia
Phillies won the World Series last night - bettering the Tampa
Bay Rays in the "resumed" game 5.  I live in Philadelphia - I
have for most of my adult life. I love this city and I have come
to love its teams.  Growing up in central PA in the home of a
still moderately bitter Brooklyn Dodgers fan, I watched a lot of
Pirates and Mets (channel 11 - WPIX) baseball - we didn't get a
local Philadelphia station - so we never saw the Phillies,
unless they were playing one of the aforementioned teams or
were, basically, in the world series. So, naturally, I became a
St. Louis Cardinals fan. The Cards were pretty successful in the
1980s (3 World Series appearances, 1 win) - and they kept a lot
of their line-up intact - so it was easy to remember the
players' names, etc (okay, I kept an index card on each player
with their stats, organized in one of those metal - well, index
card boxes). Pittsburgh was definitely the "local" team of
choice - I went to quit