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You may have caught this on our Twitter feed over the weekend, but after homering twice last night, we thought this love letter to Chase Utley was especially deserved.

Remember way back when the Phillies were playing the Dodgers and we pointed out in the morning news roundup that MLB.com blew it and published a link to a story which had the Dodgers beating the Phillies 4-3 to tie the series at two games apiece? Well, the Inquirer ran a three-quarters page Macy's ad on the back page of the A section which says "CONGRATULATIONS PHILLIES! Back-to-Back Champs."

Mayors Nutter and Bloomberg are using the World Series (have we mentioned the Phillies are playing the Yankees?) as an opportunity to draw attention to community service. Unlike a cheesecake/cheesesteak bet, this friendly wager will have the losing mayor (whom we can only assume will be Bloomberg) visiting the winning mayor's city to work on a mural on a children's recreational center. Phillyist looks forward to Mayor Bloomberg's visit after the series.

Unless you've been hiding under a rock, you're well aware the World Series is scheduled to start today. We're sort of skeptical this rain is ever going to stop, but while we're all waiting for that to happen check out our run-down of why the Yankees suck (and some reasons why the Phillies are better) below:

Good idea: celebrating the home team.

We don't even need to say more. All aboard!!!

We have utmost confidence in our boys, but we could use a little less "one more game" talk. Our fists are bleeding from knocking wood.

After two stupid early games, a snow-out, and a late, late game, Phillies fans can rejoice in a game we'll actually get to watch. Tonight's 6:07 p.m. start time still doesn't make a whole lot of sense (what's with the :07, anyway?), but it's a hell of a lot better than last night, anxiously trying to keep our eyes open at 2 a.m., watching to make sure Brad Lidge didn't blow the perilous 1-run lead the Phils gained in the top of the 9th after a hard-fought game.

Not that the product of two highly attractive people breeding forgives the black mark on the Phillies postseaon record, but we kind of understand why Cole Hamels's head might not exactly have been in the game yesterday.

Today happens to be National Poetry Day for our friends across the pond. And for those of us here in Philadelphia—you know, on the winning side of that little revolution—it's Game 2 of the NLDS between the Phightin's and the Rockies.