The Philadelphia Phillies are not the 1927 New York Yankees, nor are they the 1976 Cincinnati Reds. They are, well, the 2010 Philadelphia Phillies, nothing more.

They are not invincible. In nautical terms, they might be the Bismarck or the Titanic — said to be unsinkable before they found the bottom of the sea.

If you listen to the national media, particularly the nauseating talking heads considered experts on the baseball shows, the 2010 Cincinnati Reds are a flotilla of rowboats facing the Battleship Missouri.

They talk about the reverberating bats the Phillies bring to the party. Does anybody realize the Phillies hit .230 in their seven games against the Reds this year? Yes, they won five of seven, including four straight in Philly, but three were by one run, four were in extra innings and two were by 1-0.

The Phillies beat the Reds with pop guns.

The pundits didn’t follow the Reds closely enough or they’d know better. These are the same guys who counted out the Reds after they lost three straight at home to the St. Louis Cardinals in mid-August, vacating first place.

They thought the Cardinals would then see the Reds in their rear-view mirrors. But while they were looking in their rear-view mirrors, the Reds were right next to them in the side-view mirrors and soon they were invisible to the fading Cardinals, disappearing down the road to the National League Central Division title by five games.

Yes, the Phillies are throwing a trey of aces at the Reds — Roy Halladay, Roy Oswalt and Cole Hamels. But those guys do lose games; they don’t win them all.

The Reds, taking the best offensive statistics in the National League into this best-of-five NLDS, are not shrinking violets or wilting dandelions. They are not intimidated, are not in fear.

As they showed after losing those three to St. Louis, they are resilient and have been all season. They’ve been counted out more times than a pug fighter, but scramble off the mat, stick out their tongues and say, “We’re still here and we’re not going away.”

They say, “Well, the Reds haven’t been to the postseason since 1995 and won’t know how to handle it.”

Do they know that Jay Bruce was 8 years old then, that Drew Stubbs was 10, that Joey Votto was 11, that Brandon Phillips was 13? Aroldis Chapman was only 7, and he probably doesn’t even know who the Phillies are.

These are not your daddy’s Reds, and history is just that — some musty and dusty stuff in the record books that mean nothing to them.

It would not be a shock, or even a surprise, if the Reds lost the first two games, then won the final three. That’s the modus operandi of this team that came from behind to win 45 times this year.

And that’s why it says here: Phillies take a dive and Reds win in five.