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This is why we love the game.\u00a0 This is why we put up with the frustration and the grind and the years of futility when things don’t go our way.\u00a0 This is why Harry Kalas said, in his Hall of\u00a0 Fame induction speech, that, “no matter how long you\u2019ve been in [the game], you learn more about it every year, every day. Every year I see things on the field that I\u2019ve never seen before.”\u00a0 This is why generation after generation can sit in a crowded park next to tens of thousand of strangers and have the time of their life just watching men stand around and think for three hours.\u00a0 This is why it’s a chess match and this is why the Phillies have the heart of a champion.<\/p>\n

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This morning, everyone is at a loss for words and we haven’t even won anything yet.\u00a0 This series will go on and may even go back to Los Angeles.\u00a0 But today, none of that matters.<\/p>\n

Go read about it at The Fightins<\/a>, Beerleaguer<\/a>, The Phrontiersman<\/a> and The Walkoff Walk<\/a>.\u00a0 Soak it up on Twitter and Facebook with the 700Level<\/a>.\u00a0 See what they’re saying at We Should Be GMs<\/a>.\u00a0 Last night was a special night, and whether you were watching on TV, listening to the radio or lucky enough to be in the stands, that was a Phillies game that will live on in history forever.<\/p>\n

Today everyone will try to explain the inexplicable.\u00a0 They will try with words to describe something that cannot be described.\u00a0 The emotions run high and we all want to share in this in some way, because that makes something good feel so much better.\u00a0 I think I know a word that describes this phenomena pretty well:<\/p>\n

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