The Phillies scissored their way to the World Series

If you were hoping for as much baseball as you could get this fall, MLB’s best-of-seven 2022 Championship Series’ were pretty disappointing affairs. Unless that is you’re a fan of one of the two teams that advanced from them to the World Series by respective four games to none, and four games to one margins — the Houston Astros and the Philadelphia Phillies.

Or possibly also if you’re invested in the television ratings of your favorite wrestling show(s), because the Astros and Phillies’ dominance means Raw, NXT & Dynamite all avoid competing head-to-head with nationally televised win-or-go home games this week.

That’s what we here in the blogging business call a (ham-fisted) segue to another wrestling-related baseball playoffs story... the dugout celebration Philadelphia’s Rhys Hoskins and Brandon Marsh shared after Hoskins’ third inning home run put the Phils up 2-0 on Sunday afternoon (in a game they would eventually win 4-3 on another two run homer from Bryce Harper). The greeting they shared will look familiar to anyone whose watched much AEW...

No word on if Hoskins and Marsh greeted Harper after his eighth inning bomb by screaming, “SCISSOR US, DADDY BRYCE!” Or maybe Philadelphia manager Rob Thomson is the Billy Gunn in this scenario?

But we do know AEW Tag champs The Acclaimed — who rose to the top in part because of the popularity of their “scissoring” gimmick — noticed. One half of the team, Max Caster, quote-tweeted the above “I think I’m a Phillies fan now” with grimacing and scissor emojis. The former is probably because as a Long Island kid, his allegiances likely lie with the Phillies’ National League East rivals the New York Mets.

His partner Anthony Bowens, a former collegiate baseball player who’s on the record as a being a “HUGE” San Francisco Giants fan, has no such conflict. So he just states the obvious:

Will Philadelphia’s remarkable season culminate with a celebration like The Acclaimed’s chase of tag gold did (minus the cease & desist from Smart Mark Sterling) at AEW Grand Slam? Is scissoring the new “YES!” or “WOO!” How much do you want to bet we get a Phillies reference in Platinum Max’s next entrance rap?