Earlier today, we had a chance to talk with Marc Rosenthal, a paralegal from Princeton, New Jersey and winner of Choose Your Champ, the BlueClaws/Trenton Thunder World Series prediction contest.

Over 1,000 entered, sending in their Phillies/Yankees prediction (winner, number of games, and MVP). No one predicted all three, so everyone that had the Yankees and then either six games or Hideki Matsui, was entered into a drawing.

“I was shocked,” said Rosenthal, who chose to go to Opening Day at the new Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, a trip that will be financed by the BlueClaws (since the Phillies lost the World Series).

He predicted Yankees in 6, but had CC Sabathia as the series MVP.

“I’ve been to Citizens Bank Park but I have never been to the new Yankee Stadium,” he said.

A native New Yorker and Mets fan, Rosenthal “stayed neutral” during the World Series. “There were too many Yankee fans and Phillies fans in our office.” He decided to anger as few people as possible.

“Being from New York, I never really had anything against the Yankees,” he added. “But the Phillies, they’re the Mets’ natural rival.”

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