If history repeats itself Phillies should win World Series

The team that won the first World Series game went on to win the series in each of the last five years.

If history repeats itself, the Philadelphia Phillies should be able to buy a new costume for the Phillie Phanatic (pictured) and plan their victory parade.

Of course the Tampa Rays will have much to say about that after their “miracle” season.

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For 10 years, the Tampa Bay club was a lousy team with a fiendish nickname: the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.

Then the club exorcised the “Devil” from its name, and suddenly Tampa Bay is in the World Series.

Maybe they should have chased the Devil out of their name years ago.

Will they go down in flames in the World Series like the Colorado Rockies after their “miracle” year in 2007?