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I find headlines like "Phillies stun Yankees in World Series Game One" comical because the Yankees are not the team to beat. It's almost like last year when the Tampa Bay Rays went through the Chicago White Sox and Boston Red Sox on their way to the World Series. The Rays were never given a chance to beat the Red Sox after taking out the White Sox. Yet, if you were listening to the broadcast, you would automatically assume that the Rays were the wild card team and that the Red Sox had won the American League East. In actuality, the situation was reversed in both cases. The Rays were the best team in the American League East in 2008. But they got no respect from announcers because, before that year, the team was a perennial loser and didn't really come close to competing for the division cr ...

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Article written by Steven Resnick