By Richard Justice - There's a magical quality to the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Philadelphia Phillies are boring by comparison. How do you like your National League Championship Series now? Pat Gillick, the best general manager of the last 25 years, constructed the Phillies with a series of under-the-radar moves that got almost no attention at the time. He took apart an underachieving club and built an overachieving group. There's not much glitz to these Phillies. And that's why the baseball gods invited the Dodgers to the National League Championship Series. The Dodgers have Manny Ramirez and Joe Torre. How does a Red Sox-Dodgers World Series ring your chime? Manny would get both a winning and a losing share if that happened. He'd get a World Series ring no matter who won. He might deserve it after hitting .396 with 17 home...
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