THE PHILLIES WON THE WORLD SERIES!!!!!!!

There was a little delay on the mlb.com online video player, so when my best friend from high school called just after the Phillies won, the phone started ringing at the same moment that Lidge threw that final strike. I knew it was her--it could only have been--and so my greeting to her after not speaking for over a month was not "Hey!" but "Ahhhhh!"--but quietly, because it was 4 am and my roommates were sleeping.

I paid for the privilege to see it online; I stayed up most of the night (twice) to watch it, and then even more of the night talking to friends from Phildelphia and my entire family on the phone and online; I missed the first half of my ulpan today so I could get just a few hours of sleep. But it was all worth it, because I actually got to watch the Phillies win the World Series. Not quite as up-close-and-personally as my dad did, but it was the best I could do from Israel. And it was awesome.