2009 National League Championship Series
The 2009 National League Championship Series (NLCS) was a best-of-seven baseball game series pitting the Los Angeles Dodgers against the Philadelphia Phillies for the National League Championship and the right to represent the National League in the 2009 World Series. The Phillies defeated the Dodgers four games to one. Los Angeles, whose NL-best 95–67 record topped Philadelphia's 93–69 record, retained home-field advantage. The series, the 39th in league history, began on October 15 and finished on October 21. TBS carried the championship on television.
The Phillies won the series, four games to one, advancing to the World Series for the second consecutive year. They were, however, defeated by the New York Yankees, 4–2.
This was the second consecutive NLCS between the Dodgers and Phillies and the fifth overall. The first two meetings were won by the Dodgers in 1977 and 1978, and the third by the Phillies in 1983; none of the three resulted in a World Series Championship by either team. The Phillies defeated the Dodgers in five games in 2008 en route to their 2008 World Series title. This match-up is the most frequent in the history of the NLCS (as of 2009) tied with the Pirates vs Reds.
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by Neelix
Taxi Driver
by: NeelixIt was about... 6:15 in the morning,
I'm drunk and I'm high and I'm in Chicago.
And hmm... I walk to the corner to get a cab,
after five empty cabs just passed me by, one finally
stopped.
He was this white mid-western working class kind of guy
(you know the type...)
so, anyway, I jumped in and I said: "Hyatt regency
please."
and he looked at me like I was crazy, and said:
"Where? Downtown?" and I said: "Yeah...!"
Now, the whole way down to the Hyatt,
as we pulled up and i paid my fare,
the cabby turned around with a curious grin
and asked me: "Where you goin'?"
and I grabbed my bag of records
and i looked back at him and I said: