The 2009 season for the Phillies brought a lot of happy faces this year, and also a few sad faces. But be sure a lot of those faces were happy. The Phillies won the World Series in 2008 and would make it back to the World Series in 2009. The Phillies have never done that in their history and that just shows you what this team can do. 2009 was a great year, those chilly months to start off in the beginning, those hot long summer nights in the middle, and the warm, chilly fall months. Than November came and the greatest, longest, 2009 season came to an end. No matter what happened in the World Series "I will always love this team. There like a second family in the summer". Just remember all the walk off wins, all the great moments you had at the ball part or parking lot with your buddies, remember the voice that left our world the one and only Harry Kalas, remember Cliff Lee coming over from the Cleveland Indians getting his first complete game win as a Phillie against the San Francisco Giants.
This Phillies team I think has won a lot peoples hearts in this city coming oh so close to winning BACK TO BACK titles, but just getting back to World Series for the second straight year is amazing at it self. Where most team who win or go to World Series usually just die off or take years to get back there, but the Phillies didn't waste time proving people wrong. A lot sports writers picked the Phillies to finish second to last in the NL East and for the Mets to win the division, where the opposite happened. The Phillies took the NL East crown for the third straight year in 6 games. 2010 looks like the Phillies could if not get only get better with a lot of young players to prove themselves to be still "The team to beat in the NL East" and I'm looking forward to see who the Phillies will add on to the roster in the offseason for 2010. For those who don't know Brett Mayers will no longer be a Phillie after 8 long years in Philly. Also the Phillies took Cliff Lee's $9 million option and will return to Philly in 2010, which is a great move. Cliff Lee as a Phillie from July 31st was great, with 7 wins 4 losses, an ERA of 3.39, and 74 strikeouts and has filled the ace spot. The 2009 season was one to remember and now its time to start counting down the days to spring training, 95 days left till the 2010 Philadelphia Phillies kicks off and we have "HIGH HOPES" for another amazing season in 2010.
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