WE'VE GOT WORLD SERIES COVERAGE!

"they could dance around all season long, but for one period every year etched in time, the leagues best fought, and the greatest team won"

I've been so busy over the last three months with school, work and family bullshit that I've only had time to sneak in a post once in awhile, but for the world series I'll give you complete and uninterrupted coverage until the very last out is recorded.

This is our tribute to everyone who's followed the Cabinet this season, young or old, and who rode the 2009 Toronto Blue Jays season into the ground by season's end- what a brutal fucking season for any fan to experience. Seriously, this team broke the heart and soul of a city, providing them with insane euphoria when Doc beat AJ in a soldout SkyDome that was absolutely rocking on a Tuesday May night once. But that nine-game roadtrip that began in Boston would spell the beginning of the end for the Toronto Blue Jays. Boston was also only good for a short while, and Tampa Bay never really got things together, and so New York basically coasted their way to the playoffs under the bats of the much storied prevalent lefty Yankee lineup. Even their offense was supported by a great bullpen that could shut it down, and good starting pitching from their big three, Sabathia, Burnett and Andy Pettitte. New York went on to have the major leagues' best record with over 100 wins.

The worst thing of all though was that the American League Playoffs, nevermind the brutal umpiring, saw the worst unfundamental baseball of any playoffs that I can ever remember. The young and inexperienced Twins could not run the basepaths if their lives depended on it, and the Angels could not defend the baseball in New York like they knew nothing but Sunny California. New York had both series handed to them, and coasted to the World Series.

You could argue then that New York had played the most fundamental baseball of all. However, there were stars on New York too,- A-Rod finally shed the playoff monkey the New York media had put on his back, belting a number of homeruns at critical times, and was being compared to Reggie Jackson in the '77 and '78 World Series wins. CC Sabathia had won three games, and sported a 0.79 ERA. New York had not been in the world series for five years, and had not won a world series in the decade, and for their storied history, they better had won one in the final year of the decade or a baseball historian in Cooperstown might look back and label the decade as one without feats.

So Entering Game 1, and having had home field advantage throughout the whole playoffs, New York would have it once more in the World Series. The American League had extended the unbeaten streak to 13 against the National League by winning 4-3 on Granderson's mad dash in the eighth inning. Nevermind the fact that Granderson never even saw the real playoffs if you don't consider the one game playoff they had against the amazing Twins that collapsed Detroit's 7-game division lead in 18 games, because all that mattered was when the lights flickered on and out would come CC Sabathia for Game 1 of the World Series.

But this wasn't just any opponent. These were the defending champion Philadelphia Phillies, who just like the Yankees who had coasted through the American League Playoffs had done the same National League Playoffs. The Phillies, too, they never really had any contest in their division as the Florida Marlins and the Atlanta Braves never even mounted a serious challenge, and the New York Mets were nowhere to be seen all season long, living in the shadow of one of the greatest Yankee regular seasons in the last decade or so.

But Philadelphia didn't look like a team that could repeat until the trading deadline. Late season acquisitions of Pedro Martinez and Cliff Lee gave the Phillies the starting pitching power to blow away the National League, and earn a date against an equally tough opponent, New York.

Cliff Lee was absolutely beyond sensational in the National League Playoffs, pitching a complete game, and dominating with a 2-0 record and a 0.74 ERA with 24.1 innings pitched in three starts.

Pedro Martinez was also sensational in his lone start, going seven innings and allowing just one run on three-hit ball. It reminded folks of the old Pedro that used to dominate with the Red Sox, since it had been five years since the former Cy Young award winner had made headlines.

Philadelphia had no other starting pitching to support them, and if they had thrown guys like the already washed-up Cole Hamels and old-man Jamie Moyer to the hill, they would have certainly been fair game for their opponents, letting the offense spur crazy comebacks.

But Los Angeles, who had faced Philadelphia for a second straight year in the division series had no answers despite the breakout years of Andre Ethier and Matt Kemp. Neither them or powerful Manny Ramirez had a notable enough playoff performance compared to the starpower of A-Rod in New York. Cliff Lee really shut down the Los Angeles Dodgers, and prevented from really gaining any ground in the series.

And certainly not J.A. Happ, who was awful in his lone start. And definetely not Chad Durbin.

So it was the one-two power of Philadelphia's rotational punch in Lee and Pedro Martinez that could certainly beat either Burnett or Sabathia in the World Series, with Game 3 heavily favoured to New York considering the starting pitcher in Andy Pettitte, looking to add-on to his record-breaking postseason win total.

However, going into the series New York was still favoured when it came to pitching, but Philadelphia's offense certainly matched up with stars like Chase Utley, Jimmy Rollins, Ryan Howard, Raul Ibanez, and Jason Wyerth who could all belt homeruns much like the Bronx Bombers in Mark Texiara, A-Rod himself, Johnny Damon, Hideki Matsui, and Jorge Posada. Even though Posada was an aging catcher who sometimes made amazing mental mistakes that would blow your mind away but never cost the team any trouble in the American League Playoffs, he would hit decisive homeruns. At 36 Posada was clumsy, but certainly far from being done, even if the often-wild A.J Burnett wouldn't throw to him.

But then again, don't be surprised if Philadelphia pulls the aging Jamie Moyer out of the closet, who's been around the game longer than anyone else, really, and a veteran knows how to get another veteran out.

Philadelphia, all season long, has had the ability to pull someone off the bench or put them back in the rotation and throw you a twist. The Yankees? It's the same old guys coming at you, once more.

Joe Girardi better be ready for surprises, because if he isn't, the World Series might just go to Philadelphia, and this time by accident, for a second straight year, because New York has the best team on paper, and should win the World Series.

But Philadelphia could upset. There's no question about it.

But tonight, former teammates Lee and Sabathia duke it out in what should be one of the lowest scoring games of the World Series!