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Pinch yourself, the Tampa Bay Rays are going to the World Series

By  Sun-Times Wire
   
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We live in amazing times.

And by that I mean we live in a world where the Tampa Bay Rays are going to host Game 1 of the World Series against the Philadelphia Phillies on Wednesday night.

Their nail-biting 3-1 victory was closed out by David Price (who?), and will surely be go down in history as the most productive thing a group of mohawked men has ever done.

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