So that's what it's like to win the world series...

Being from Seattle, I'm not accustomed to the big win when it comes to our sporting teams. In my lifetime, Seattle track record goes something like this:

• 1995: Mariners clinch the AL West title but lose the ALCS to the Indians ("The Double")
  
• 1996: Sonics go to the NBA finals but lose to the Bulls in 6 (finals)
• 1995, 1997: Mariners again win the AL West title but drop to the Orioles and Yankees respectively in the ALCS.
  
• 2006: Seahawks are robbed of the Superbowl by shoddy officiating.
  

Close, but no cigar so many times. So many times that I stopped caring after 2006.

Anyways, the Phillies won the World Series this Wednesday. I really can't claim this as a hometown win given that I've been here a month and a half already (yes, even though Moyer finally got his ring).

But more importantly, I wish some Seattle had won a world championship while I was there because I didn't realize that when you win such things, you hold a traffic-inducing, gridlocking parade in honor of winning team. If I had known that, I would've rescheduled my research meeting to avoid the stuffed, twice-as-long, train-and-subway ride in and out of University City.

Sigh.