As a life-long Phillies fan their championship brought great joy, a nearly uncontrollable desire to buy even more Phillies merchandise and a forced acceptance that I am older than I sometimes believe.

Because in the midst of following some of the games on the mobile internet, getting blogs from passionate Phillies fans on my RSS feeds and participating in a Phillies fan list-serv, I thought back fondly on the nights I would fall asleep with a transistor radio pressed to my ear listening to Phillies games crackle on an AM radio station.

I remember when the Phillies would play on the West Coast and there was no way to find out if they won or lost until the next day when I got home from school and watched the Six O’Clock News. Can you imagine, having to wait almost 24 hours to get the score of a game on the west coast?

Now I get frustrated when the internet radio broadcast of the game is a pitch behind the game simulcast on mlb.com.

As business owners who use the internet to grow sales, we can’t forget how fast news travels today. If someone has a bad customer experience, another customer can hear about in seconds. We also have to remember that with how quickly things move on the internet, prospects have become amazingly impatient. If they can’t find what they want from your website design in seconds, they move on to someone else’s website.

And Phillies fans move even faster on the internet. We’re already fretting about next season.