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[ElboRuum]

World Series, that is.

OK. So the Phillies just won the World Series, and shortly thereafter Broad Street got trashed pretty badly (as I fully expected).

So you're probably saying, so, Elbo, er, :shrug:?

Well, the last time the Phillies won the World Series (and the only other time) was in the season of 1980. Shortly thereafter, Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, and politics, government, and culture went from there on a 30-year bender. The country changed severely in 1980 even though it took a while to fully manifest just how much.

Here it is, 2008. The Phillies win again... Will the country change again? Is there a mystical correlation to Philadelphia championships in our national pastime to the ebb and flow of national politics and character?

Hmm.

[SteppingRazor]

1. Who cares? Philadelphia is the armpit of America.

City of Brotherly Love indeed ... I mean, surely, that name is meant ironically, no?



:popcorn:

[SwampG8r]

3. have to agree

was there this year
made jersy look like cannes

[LostinVA]

5. New Jersey is a very nice, very beautiful state

The HUGE majority of NJ is rural or suburbian, with beautiful countryside and nice beaches.

The ignorance on DU about certain parts of the US and certain states is appalling.

[SwampG8r]

6. im jut commenting on what i have seen myself

[SteppingRazor]

7. really? The HUGE majority? I mean, it does have the highest population density of any state.

That said, my family used to do big family reunions on the Jersey shore around Stone Harbor and Avalon in the late 80s/early 90s. I thought it was gorgeous.

[LostinVA]

8. HUGE majority -- very few true urban areas

The traffic is horrendous on the big highways during certain times of the day, because of the proximity of NYC, and tourism overflow from the Delaware Water Gap.

I grew up closeish to Stone Harbor. Very nice!

[ElboRuum]

10. You know where the Delaware River came from?

Actually, it was the first true "public works" project in American history.
William Penn commissioned the digging of a man-made river in order to keep people from Jersey out. Of course,
then they started building bridges across, but now we at least have a port.

:hide:

Now, now. I'm only kidding.

[HereSince1628]

4. I beg yer pardon, that honor goes to Augusta GA. n/t

[ElboRuum]

9. See what you started...

No irony. It is the City of Brotherly Love. What? Do you expect your brother to give you a peck on the cheek and a warm hug? Fuck no, you expect a smack in the face and a noogie at a minimum. It's all done out of love.

I don't mind, people can bag on Philly all they want, so long as they do it from whatever little podunk shitwich town they come from. What most people see when they say how "rude" we are is what happens when obnoxious provincials come in and start bagging on the town and start yammering on about how bloody wonderful their little corner of the country is in comparison. And when they tell you this little story about how some guy broke his nose then ten others took turns sitting on his spleen, they always leave out the part where they came in and started this shit with one of the locals after they'd had about six too many.

I won't lie. This can be a pretty tough town if you get on the bad side of the people in it. But why would any traveler do that to anyone in any town their visiting in the first place? I certainly don't go to boring ass places like most people's hometowns and start giving them shit, I'm a much better traveler than that, smarter one, too. So what's with all the tools who come to Philly and think, "hey, let's go see Independence Hall, then the Franklin Institute, and then go over to get our drink on at the Irish Pub and tell some local what a shithole he lives in"? What's with the jackass Dallas fan in the stands who thinks he's going to question the parentage of a local resident two rows down and not have his head caved in by the 15 people sitting around him wearing green?

I guess to the rest of the country, Philly is the only town left where it is perceived to be acceptable to be a complete asshole as a visitor, because, hell, we're all just a bunch of filthy, dirty, sub-human, knuckledragging rageaholics anyway, not deserving of the respect accorded people from other, better, corners of our country.

I know you were just trying to start a little shit, but I've lived in, about, and around Philly my whole life, and there are maybe two other places in the entire of the country I've had occasion to travel that I'd ever consider relocating to. The crap the city gets from people who just don't know is just a little too much.

[SteppingRazor]

11. Purely shit-stirring for the fun of it.

I've been to Philly a couple of times. Had some very weird, sketchy experiences, but I blame that mostly on the fact that I tend to seek out weird, sketchy experiences.

[ElboRuum]

12. What is it they say?

Seek, and ye shall find?

[justiceischeap]

2. As I recall, your Phillies beat my Royals :(

I was a very sad ten year old.

I think our nation will change after this Philly win and for the better. It's all about HOPE and CHANGE, right?