With both LCS series now standing at 3-1, it's looking like Bud Selig's dream of a Red Sox-Dodgers World Series is increasingly unlikely. Instead, we're most likely looking at a Tampa Bay Rays-Philadelphia Phillies series.
This might not be so great for Philly, because matchups between the two cities - in which the established, favored Philly team faced the upstart Tampa squad- haven't exactly gone the way of the City of Brotherly Love in recent years. The Lightning have won multiple playoff series over the Flyers in the last ten years, and of course the Bucs beat the favored Eagles in the 2003 NFC championship game.
So, the Philies, if they make it to a series against Tampa, will be doing more than trying to win their city's first title in 25 years- they'll be avenging past aggression by the much-less rabid Tampa-St. Petersburg area.