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The Philadelphia Phillies have made the playoffs.

Insert a pause here for dramatic effect and to allow the reader to gather his or her thoughts at this stunning development.

The Phillies have made the playoffs for the fifth straight season. Even if they lose sixteen straight games, they’ll squeak in with a Wild Card berth and 74,208 articles about what the 16-game losing streak means for their playoff chances. It probably won’t come to that. The Phillies were supposed to be very good, and have been even better than expected.

So what do the Phillies do with the remaining two weeks? Plenty. Here are three things that Phillies fans can root for in that calm dispassionate Phillies-fan kind of way.

Home-field advantage
Despite Bruce Bochy’s best attempt to sabotage the Phillies by pitching Cliff Lee and Roy Halladay more than one inning each (!!!) in the All-Star Game, that actually helped the Phillies get home-field advantage in the World Series..

http://mlb.sbnation.com/2011/9/14/2425935/philadelphia-phillies-playoff-berth-clinch