Here we go. Or should we say: Here we go again.
Saturday in that feverish baseball hotbed of Atlanta, Ga., it’s the National League Division Series rematch we’ve been waiting for the last 355 days. It’s Braves versus Phillies in the finals of the NL East October Madness Regional.
And while it’s mostly true that the sequel is never as good as the original, are we sure that’s going to apply to Braves-Phillies 2.0?
Let’s go with no, because A) this isn’t “Return to the Blue Lagoon,” and B) that was clearly how the occupants of a beer-soaked clubhouse in Philadelphia were voting Wednesday night.
“It’s gonna be a war,” said Phillies third baseman Alec Bohm, looking as if he’d just completed swimming 800 meters in an Olympic-sized pool filled with Budweiser.