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There was a time, and not that long ago, when the unspoken understanding in following a baseball team was that there would be some highs and there would be some lows and that overreacting to every plot twist from the middle of February until October was just plain silly.
That, of course, was before Twitter and blogs and Google alerts and saturation-level coverage of sports that tricks us into thinking that every wrinkle must be the most critical development in the history of the franchise, at least until whatever happens tomorrow.
So when the Phillies won eight straight and traded for Roy Oswalt, it was time to grease up the flatbed trucks that would once again haul the World Series floats down Broad Street.
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