{"id":1798,"date":"2014-10-07T01:02:31","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T06:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1798"},"modified":"2014-10-06T08:05:25","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T13:05:25","slug":"its-called-winning-the-pennant-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2014\/10\/its-called-winning-the-pennant-2\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Called “Winning the Pennant”"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n

This is a repeat post from October of 2011. I find it unfortunate that the sorry situation is still the same.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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<rant>Baseball now (soon) moves into the World Series. You take the pennant winners from the National and American leagues and play a best-of-seven series to see who is the best in the world.<\/p>\n

Now, let\u2019s see if we can ruin this. People must be trying to ruin this, because they are succeeding at that. \u00a0They are trying to turn the World Series into the Super Bowl. It isn\u2019t the Super Bowl; it is a series between the best of the two leagues.<\/p>\n

When a team wins a league championship in baseball, they win the pennant<\/em>. They actually get a pennant or flag to fly in their ball park. That is the prize.<\/p>\n

Recently, however, some people who want to kill the game are trying to change the names. They now call the winners the \u201cwinner of the League Championship Series\u201d or L-C-S. I\u2019m sorry, \u201cL-C-S\u201d sounds like a disease or something. Maybe it is the Last Child Syndrome or the Lowest Calorie Syndrome or something like that.<\/p>\n

Just remember, it\u2019s called<\/p>\n

Winning the pennant<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

not<\/p>\n

Winning the LCS.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/rant><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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