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 Local news media is pretty much incredible whenever a local team makes it far in the postseason. The Daily News is no exception:
BASEBALL DOESN’T symbolize America. It IS America.
It’s ballparks and barbecues, luck and genetics, strikeouts and home runs, hot dogs and Bud, diamond dust and bright lights, dugouts and stands, slumps and redemption, heartbreak and heart.
It’s Babe Ruth. Hometown Heroes. “Field of Dreams.”
America needs its soul now more than any other time since the Great Depression. Our 401(k)s have tanked and groceries and gas go on credit. We can’t afford cars for ourselves and college for our children. If we haven’t lost our jobs and homes, we fear we could.
We need to believe again.
And Wednesday night, the Phillies restored the American Dream.
I mean, the repo man was about to take all my stuff, and then, pow!, the Phillies won and all of a sudden there’s more credit in this town than there is humidity. Some dude on the street this morning just gave me a $10,000 loan randomly. And my hypothetical children are now in college!
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