As I’ve written, I participate at Landmark Education. I’m part of a team of truly extraordinary people who are the source of some remarkable results for people — including ourselves — in the world. In their lives, in their businesses, with their families. Wonderful, stuff.

Yesterday, I attended a meeting with this tremendous team at the Landmark Center…in Philadelphia.

Oy…

A woman who I hold as a dear, dear friend wore her Phillies World Championship t-shirt. She says in front of the group, “I wore this for all the Mets & Yankees fans here.”

I, of course, said “Shuddup!”

Afterwards, she gave me a speil about how it was worth the $20 she spent on the shirt to wear it with me in mind.

I said, “Tell me something: why are we in your heads? Go dry the champagne off yourself, enjoy your championship and leave the rest of us ALONE.”

Jimmy “Big Mouth” Rollins has to reference the Mets during the victory parade. Harry Kalas calls out “Take that, New York!” in the pregame video before a World Series game. The Phils break Shane Victorino’s balls, comparing him to “J. Reyes” in some clubhouse ribbing.

Good Lord! With their minds so occupied with the goings on a few miles to the north, how in hell did they ever find the time to play 5 World Series games, let alone win 4 of ‘em?

My man Steve Keane has a good take on it, and the whole thing is seeming to make Matt Cerrone uncharacteristically feisty, as well.

I mean… how “li’l bother” can ya get?

It’s an amazing phenomenon, really.

A day before some of our churches tell us to honor All Saints and 2 days before some of our churches tell us to honor All Souls (ie. Anyone Who’s Dead At The Present Time), we all get to dress up and give each other a good laugh or a good scare or both. I always thought it fun, and never really bought into the whole “spooky” thing. I pretty much always had a good time on Halloween and my pants generally stay on as far as being scared goes.

Until this year.

I’ve found 4 words that send chills down my spine, that turn my hair whiter, that make me want to run screaming into the night:

World Champion Philadelphia Phillies.

Now THAT’S scary…

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Highlights from a very good year!

A huuuuuuuuuge win over the Steelers in Pittsburgh. A classic if there ever was one, a win that can be attributed to an interception, an injury to a long-snapper and a catch by a sure-handed tight end.

The Steelers certainly have big play ability — their 14 points came on 2 lightning bolts, one in each half. The Giants, meanwhile just chipped ground away, garnering their 14 points on 4 field goals and a safety. After the safety, they took the free kick back to about mid-field, and coverted it to the winning 6 almost immediately, with Eli Manning finding Kevin Boss in the middle of the end zone.

Big Blue now sports the mark of the elite team: they WILL find a way to win.

The 7-1 Giants now get Dallas — sans Tony Romo — at home next week.

FUN!

PS — The Phillies are up 3 games to 1. That is all…

Now it’s back to the CitzBath for weekend pleasantries.

Speaking of which…

The Woilds Champeen New York Giants are gonna have their hands full Sunday at the Ketchup Bottle. This is the premier matchup of the still-young NFL season, and the squads could not be more evenly matched. Pittsbugh has a solid young quarterback, a fierce defense and a muscular running game. Sound familiar? I think we’ll be looking at a 17-10…maybe 23-20 kind of game. Keeping ‘em all crossed that the Giants can be on the long end.

The Mets have named their coaches. All are coming back except Guy Conti (who goest whither Pedro goest), Ken Oberkfell (to whom I hope they hang on) and Luis (Let ‘Em Go!) Aguayo. The new 3B coach has one of the best baseball names of all time: Razor Shines. Let’s hope he keeps everybody sharp…

Cole Hamels was nothing short of brilliant for 7 innings and the Philly bullpen pulled off something the Mets’ ‘pen never could: two consecutive 1-2-3 innings. Now Tampa needs to blast Myers in order to have any kind of shot when when they get back to the CitzBath Bandbox — because those games look to be absolute bloodbaths with the power numbers these 2 teams have.

Hate to say it, but this looks like it’s gonna be a true Fall Classic.

Remember, you heard it here last…

Talk about an unholy alliance…

The two teams I hate worst of anything on this Earth? The Skanks & the Cowflops? In bed together? And with Goldman-Sachs, yet?

YIKES!

The Tampa Bay Rays did their best Mets imitation last night in game 5 of the ALCS.

Cruising along with a 7-0 lead into the bottom of the 7th, Tampa allowed the Sawx to hang around…and hang around…and hang around until JD Drew’s walk-off bingle in the 9th brought Bahst’n back from the dead.

As someone near and dear to our hearts would say, “OH, MY GOOD…GOODNESS GRACIOUS!”
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How high has Philadelphia scored on national literacy tests?

I’m always surprised they don’t get tripped up halfway through the E-A-G-L-E-S chant:

EEEEE! AAAAAY! JEEE! Um…um…

Shane Victorino
Josh Willingham
Hanley Ramirez
Willie Harris
Lastings Milledge

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Mike Francesa has lost his mind.

He’s got no New York baseball since September 28 and he’s got no Mad Dog to balance him out. So his rants about David Wright the last couple of days have served their dual purpose — a.) to rile up the Met fan, and 2.) to get people talking about a now largely irrelevent talk radio show. Bravo, Michael.

I think he could give a rat’s bee-hind about David Wright, unless he somehow winds up in the Bronx, in which case he’ll suddenly become the best thirdbaseman of all time.

In any case, here’s all you need to know about the Grand Bloviator with regards to David Wright: his quote from 2003 — “Who’s David Wright?”

Pardon me while I hurl my breakfast now.

Actually, I respect the Phillie team a lot, talent-wise. Chase Utley, Ryan Howard, Pat Burrell, Jimmy Rollins…it’s never been a secret that I totally covet Jayson Werth for the Mets.

However…

Shane Victorino needs to leave his purse at home, and Bret Myers needs to pick on sombody his own sex. Those guys, you can keep.

Their phans have the biggest inferiority complex I’ve ever seen. Can’t blame them really…when you the “Little Brother” to New York, you gotta scrape for your own place in the world. So they invade Mets blogs & message boards to declare themselves kings of the world.

Newsflash: Just ’cause ya say it loud, don’t make it so.

So enjoy. You’ve earned it.

Now shut the phuck up…