Stay tuned for the rest of the decade's best World Series'

Louis closed out the championship with three straight wins to celebrate as the unlikely champions What a year in baseball 2008 was. The Rays changed their name, colors, and outlook as the sprinted to a division title for the first playoff appearance in franchise history. They reached the World Series with a spectacular seven-game win over the rival Red Sox in the ALCS. The Phils dominated the Dodgers in the NLCS, and used a titanic Matt Stairs home-run at Dodger Stadium in Game Four to overcome Los Angeles. The World Series was extremely unusual, and plagued by bad weather.

After the Phillies took Game One at Tropicana, 3-2, the Rays rebounded to tie the Series in Game Two. The Phillies won a pivotal Game Three on a fluky Carlos Ruiz infield single for a walk-off triumph, and routed the AL champs in Game Four. Game Five was perhaps the most unique game in World Series history. As Citizen's Bank Park was pelted with torrential rain, the game was suspended after the top of the sixth.

The Rays had tied the game in the previous half-inning, so the suspension was surely controversial, but it made for one of the most exciting finishes in recent memory. The remaining innings were action packed, and the Phillies clinched the title on Brad Lidge's strikeout of Eric Hinske to cap one of the strangest Fall Classics ever. The team that seemed so potentially dysfunctional, with perhaps the biggest villain in baseball won The franchise everyone loves to hate won. Yet it was an appropriate one, given that the Yankees were clearly the best team in baseball after struggling in the first couple of months of the season. The Yankees were propelled by their brand new (and homer-friendly) stadium and high-priced acquisitions to a dominant playoff run C.C and A.J. Only the Phillies Cliff Lee succeeded in shutting down the Yankees bats, who were spurned on by Mark Texiera and Derek Jeter. Alex Rodriguez conquered his playoff daemons at the plate, hitting a crucial home run in Game Three to take hold of the series..

Stay tuned for the rest of the decade's best World Series'!. The great Ken Rosenthal asked today "Do the Mets Have Alternatives for Benjie Molina"The Mets will not give free-agent catcher Bengie Molina a three-year contract. The question is whether reasonable alternatives even exist for both parties. Few teams need catchers, and probably none is willing to give Molina, 35, a three-year deal. However, if the Mets opt not to sign Molina, then the market for Benjie Molina all of a sudden becomes very murky.