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The Philadelphia Phillies have the unfortunate honor of being the professional franchise with the most losses in every sport. This has come because of a few factors. One, even a great team will post a large number of losses because of the pure volume of baseball games played in a regular season. Two, the Phillies have been playing those high volume games since 1883. Three, they were awful for quite a few seasons from 1915 to 1950.
Anybody who ahs paid attention the Phillies at Citizens Bank Park will tell you that since the turn of the century, Philadelphia has bucked history and been building a loaded team that was just waiting for the Atlanta Braves to go away. The Braves are gone and now the Phillies have fought off the New York Mets and the Florida Marlins to reach their first World Series since 1993.

The competition at Tropicana Field used to be for the fans with Rays tickets that were trying to beat the rest of the crowd while the last place team finished the final two innings. This season, things magically turned around. The team inexplicably started the season hot and never slowed down. They went 97-65 and flirted with the best record in the league for a few months.

The Tampa Bay Rays took the crazy turn this season thanks to the youth. B.J. Upton, Evan Longoria, and Carl Crawford have all been highly position touted prospects and this season they managed to find their way during the season and pave a road that led to a first place finish in the highly competitive American League East.

Scott Kazmir, Matt Garza, and James Shields have been the three young aces for the team. These three and a stellar bullpen held opponents to just few enough runs to make up for the sometimes sputtering offense. That offense has not been sputtering in the postseason and will need to put on a show because the Phillies offense is powerful enough to score a few runs on the Rays great pitchers.

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