Series bumped to Wednesday night
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- October
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This from the AP as of moments ago:
PHILADELPHIA — The World Series won’t resume until Wednesday night at the earliest.
With rain still falling in Philadelphia, Major League Baseball decided not to attempt to complete Game 5 on Tuesday night.
The game, played in increasingly heavy rain, was suspended Monday following a 30-minute delay with the Philadelphia Phillies and Tampa Bay Rays tied 2-2 after 5½ innings. It was the first time a World Series game wasn’t played to completion on the same day.
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Poor Bud Selig. The guy always looks like he gulped a glass of milk before realizing it was sour. He presided over the tied All-Star Game and now he has a Game 5 that will take three days (at least) to play.
But what choice does he have? If you’re anywhere in the Northeast, you know how nasty it is outside today.
Here’s the question: Outside of Philly and St. Pete, does anybody even care?
UPDATE, 1:54 p.m.: One of our readers is a meteorologist and he weighed in on the situation on his blog. Thanks, Owen.
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Peter Abraham
I thought it was hilarious that Selig was reading aloud from the rule book, which is the size of a passport, at the podium.
So everything gets bumped now? Wednesday was supposed to be played in Tampa.
So everything gets bumped now? Wednesday was supposed to be played in Tampa.
so this means i watch House again like i did last Tuesday?
I think the Rays should google themselves a Taco Bell location in Delaware and go enjoy the fruit of their labor on the off day sometime in the next 4 hours.
Wow, Pete. Breaking news, indeed!
The longer the delay, who does it favor?
Any momentum that the Rays got in the top of the 6th will surely have dissipated by the time they get back on the field.
Can’t believe we’re going to have to wait 48 hours or more for a 3 inning game. It almost seems better to start a fresh game, but it’s not like they knew there’d be inclement weather for the next 48 hours or anything.m
meanwhile, Minnesota is building an outdoor stadium…
guess they’re not planning any late october baseball any time soon…
This is a complete mess. What’s done now is done and all they can do is try to come up with the best solution here, but I don’t think finishing this game in Philly Wednesday is it. Here is what I would’ve liked to have seen:
Play games 6 and 7 in Tampa as scheduled on Wednesday and Thursday night. If Philly wins one of those games, then there’s no issue. If Tampa wins both, then use Friday as a travel day and replay the entire game Saturday in Philadelphia with the same starters – Cole Hamels and Scott Kazmir.
It’s a bold solution, but I think it was the best way to fix what has already been screwed up. This is a real shame.
so this means i watch House again like i did last Tuesday?——————————————————————————
90210 for me.
This isn’t Selig’s fault obviously. I give him tons of credit for saying that the game was going to go 9 innings no matter what. Rain happens. Why should the players have to play dodge the driving rain? Is that real baseball? Is that the way you want to remember the potential last game of the world series being played? What if it were 3-3 and that was the 7th game? Wouldn’t you want your team to play in the most optimal conditions since you are supposedly seeing the best of the best in the series? I would.
Life happens. People need to learn to adjust and move on.
Then it’s NBA b-ball Lakers vs Blazers
At least they are being considerate of the fans and not opening up the stadium and making people sit for hours just to cancel the game.
And here is something to think about for next year because of the WBC the World Series will not start until October 27th next year.
saucY,
You’re right when you ask why get on Selig, he did the right thing.
My only beef was letting the game go on so long, when it’s obvious the field was compromised. And to let them start the 6th was too much, especially if Selig had already decided not to have a rain-shortened conclusion of game 5.
finally i can watch dexter.
Wasn’t the 1975 WS between Boston & Cincinnati interrupted by rain for several days? I realize that, back then, the money involved (from TV, especially) wasn’t as big as it is today, but I also think that national interest was higher then. Today, football (NFL and college) gets higher ratings than MLB does.
But…Why the concern for making it a night game? Don’t say it’s for the fans. And it’s definitely not for the players, if you narrow the “window” to after 8:00 pm EST.
People would quit their jobs and kids would play hookie for the chance to see the Phillies win a championship.
You could argue that it is a fault to schedule the games to 8.30 pm. The late starttime gives you less margin for error og rain or whatever could lenghten a ballgame
Well with the way the inning is setup, it favors the Phillies.
Phillies get 3 extra ABs and Hamels is leading off, so you can immediately pinch hit. If they score, they can just combine Madson and Lidge for 9 outs. Maybe even squeeze Romero in there somewhere to get a tough lefty. I think you have to go to Madson in the 7th either way considering the righties are up, otherwise I would have used Romero. Lidge pitches the 9th regardless and if there are extras, you still have Durbin, Eyre, and possibly Romero.
But there is a problem for the Rays—- they have a bench full of guys with extreme splits, righty killers and lefty killers. The pitcher is also due up 4th the next inning. From a Philly standpoint, put in the lefty batter to leadoff and make Maddon go to Howell or Miller. That takes Balfour out of the game. That means he will go to Price for 4 innings, or burn another one of his lefties. If its Miller, its likely for one batter with Rollins/Worth up. That means Bradford or Wheeler will likely get the next 2 outs. And if he does use Price, that means he can’t pinch hit or double switch for him in the 7th with runners on, he has to bat.
This game is going to be 100% about strategy to the fullest.
Tank,
I’ll go out on a limb and predict we’ll see at least one starter.
Maddon does like to go outside the box, but he does need starters for gms 6&7. But they need to get there first. And the fact of the matter is that the Rays starters have not gotten it done.
If Maddon were smart, he’d go to Price. But Price did looked overwhelmed when he came in for Game 2.
Ugh, the World Series that nobody cares about will not go quietly into the night. I just hope they canplay on Wednesday, the Phillies score 10 runs in the bottom of the 6th, and their pen shuts down Tampa.
Damn… Francesa couldn’t even hold the laughter when the name Jerome James came out of someone’s mouth.
Bud Selig pulled almost all the right strings on this one. The only mistake was to allow the game to continue for as long as it did.
If Madden treats Price like a starting pitcher and has him go 3-4 innings tomorrow, that pretty much uses him up for the series considering there are no off-days. Game 7 he probably would be available, thats it.
And Philly did score 2 runs off Price in game 2 including a HR by Bruntlett. He has to have his control because baserunners are crucial in this kind of situation. All they need is 1 run, and a walk to the wrong guy (Rollins, Victorino) can be trouble.
Mel: good afternoon : )
you have mail
Mike is right about Ewing JR though, he is a 12th man on a bad team.
If his last name was Smith, nobody would shed a tear. It is a symbolic move more than anything else. That isin’t going to make or break the (bad) team, we’re still going to suck.
Selig would was giddy that the Rays scored, it took him off the hook.
Baseball is deteriorating under Selig’s watch. We need a new commissioner.
vinny-b,
Good afternoon.
Did you put a hyphen in the addy? I re-did the post to show that it was a hyphen and not a line break.
So…we have to wait two more days to sign C.C.?
Where’s everybody? Getting tacos? I think it’s running between 2-6 pm, local time.
If his last name was Smith, nobody would shed a tear. It is a symbolic move more than anything else. That isin’t going to make or break the (bad) team, we’re still going to suck.
He’s a guy that in limited time showed he had better skills than Renaldo Balkman, he played D, blocked shots, has a 42 inch verticle and stuffs it nasty. He also has one of the hardest work ethics out of anybody on that team, counting everybody on the Knicks. Jr. when the knicks cheerleaders were doing warm ups was shooting 2 hrs. prior to practices.
They chose to keep James, Rose who expires, Marbury who expires and is a cancer, gave a 6’0 SG guaranteed money out of SL who has shown he can’t shoot in preseason and cut thier best productive SF project. What is smart about that ? the issue last year was the knicks had no PG or SF or C, this year they are going through the same. Gallo is a bad jump away from surgery, Chandler is brittle and you turn away a potentially talented kid in Ewing Jr. there is nothing smart about that. It’s not just about 12th man it’s about guys that fit a system and he would have been a very good bench player working his way to the starting unit in few yrs.
Watching Ewing Jr. you see 4 types James Posey/Matt Barnes/A raw Shawn Marion or Ruben Patterson. Now some NBA team is going to steal him.
mel: yes. Same addy listed on your site.
vinny-b,
Will watch for it. Thanks.
Once the roster is set, I’m thinking of doing a team stats parlay, too.
OT- After seeing the pics in the NY Daily News today, I would like to volunteer my decorating services for Alex Rodriguez’s new NY apartment. What were they thinking?
pat,
I was looking at some rag standing in line at the market, reading an article about Madonna and Guy Richie and how it’s going to get nasty.
So, I see Richie putting things in the trunk. No big deal. But he’s wearing a yarmulke. Friends say he was never into it.
Will A-rod cover that lovely hair? Or will he move on?
Is it even true? A part of me says it’s impossible.
Vegas treating last night’s game as a win.
http://www.lvrj.com/sports/33433179.html
pat I’m betting Cynthia decorated that apartment.
mel there was a vegas guy on the Dan Patrick show this AM as I was driving into work trying to explain all of this but yes if you had the Phillies winning last night you won. When the game resumes you can only make a side bet and he started talking about how if you had Phillies winning 4 games and the World Series you can actually lose that bet if the Rays win another game or something like that. It all sounded very confusing.
The beauty of this situation—from one point of view—is that the typical sportsbook (read: mine) graded a Phillies bet on the moneyline as a winner and already paid out. So if someone (like me, for example) bet the Phillies to win last night, that someone won the bet.
Why? Because Vegas rules are such that, once a game becomes official, if it subsequently gets suspended, as it did last night, they revert the score to that of the last completed inning, which was 2-1 Phillies. Strange but true.
And bets on the run line and totals are voided. Which helped people who stubbornly keep betting the over. Thank you, rain god.
gayle,
lol. that’s where I got the link. Did you mean if you have the Phillies winning in 5, because they didn’t win the series in 5 “games” by Vegas definitions?
Bud Selig has some nerve. If he was Roger Godell he would just fine and suspend the weather, and the situation would be resolved!
arods place doesn’t look all that bad. is it just those 2 pics? were you all expecting pinstriped wallpaper and and uncle sam hats?
mel
As long as everyone is taking care of their kids, I don’t care what the adults do. Cynthia showed a willingness to put up with alleged past physical indiscretions so it seems to be more an issue with an emotional indiscretion. That might be Madonna or it could just be a new belief system. Ever since I read that Cynthia’s grandfather is a prominent and respected Greek Orthodox priest, I’ve been leaning towards belief sysytem.
Mel like I said the thing was so confusing this morning I could not answer that question and even Dan Patrick got confused.
I enjoyed the reporter from FOX in SF more talking about the “interview” before the game she did Mike Singletary asking about him calling Bill Walsh when she got the job and her explaining how she messed up the question (Walsh dies last year) and how Francesa messed up putting it on his show.
With these delays, the Phillies could actually bring Hamels back on 3 days rest if it goes to game 7.
“mel-Free Tacos on Tuesday
October 28th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Once the roster is set, I’m thinking of doing a team stats parlay, too”
kewl.
pat,
Somewhere online are pictures of both the FL house and the NY apartment, which are both for sale. They both have a room with dramatic red wallpaper – so someone must like it.
Interesting that they’re selling both places. Cynthia asked for the Miami house in her divorce petition – so I’m guessing the settlement was slightly closer to the pre-nup than it was to what Cynthia asked for.
In any event – I’m impressed that they settled their divorce quickly and quietly. Either they both decided to be grownups about it and do it discreetly, or there was enough bad behavior on both sides that neither would win in a fight.
I’m thinking that Arod’s condo looks trailer park chic. But then seeing how his ex-wife dressed it’s not at all surprising if she’s the one who decorated. She always reminded me of trailer-park chic also, especially her F U shirt that she so classily wore to the Stadium.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_61djkGwfEZo/SQc0RO4HakI/AAAAAAAADSk/—NINDqVffk/s1600-h/ARod_FLOR_PICS.jpg
http://realestalker.blogspot.com/2008/10/rod-and-c-rod-list-coral-gables-crib.html
http://scholar.google.dk/news/search?ned=us&hl=en&num=30&as_maxm=10&q=alex+rodriguez&as_qdr=w&as_drrb=q&as_mind=4&as_minm=10&as_maxd=11&scoring=d&cf=a&ie=UTF-8&ct=rels_1
Go to the first hit. For some reason I couldn’t link directly to it.
If you google the following: +”alex rodriguez” +”florida house”
the first hit will take you to another site. The first hit on that site should be the one that shows the pictures of his trailer park shabby Florida house.
For some reason I cannot post the web addresses here.
Not here to defend Selig, but did he really have a choice??
House > Phillies/Rays completion.
Without a doubt, if the World Series, such as it is, was being played in New York City you would be singing its praises to the skyscrapers. Frankly, your “who cares” comment is just another example of tasteless New York, self-congratulatory elitism. I lived in New York for a period of years, and I found that it is as provential, maybe more so, as Minneapolis, Atlanta and Kansas City. It is past time that you oh-so-smug New Yorkers realize that outside of the Yankees and the theater district, you are merely bigger and more brutish.
Southron
Ewing might be a nice kid, but he was a mediocre college player who didn’t start as a senior. He never would have gotten a look under another name. Good luck in the NBADL kid.
Hamels only threw 75 pitches. I’d say him starting game seven is a lock if it comes to that.
Owen’s blog entry was ok, but his call about the worst being over by 9AM (this morning) didn’t work out quite that well. The rain (and even snow in some areas near and around Philly) continues. MLB at least made a good call to push the game to Wednesday, tho it never should have been started in the first place.
Which will end first ?
. Election Day
. Thanksgiving Day
. The World Series
Wow, Pete, such a well-educated following of blog readers. Although I was surprised to hear the forcast for this morning was inaccurate. Who would have thought the weatherman would get it wrong?
Seriously, I once read somewhere that it is very difficult to predict the weather with tremendous accuracy more than 18 hours in advance- is this true? Because I also heard that Gary Coleman died from eating Pop Rocks and drinking Mountain Dew. This, I have learned, is not correct.
The weather in the North East and other parts of the country in mid to late October is not suitable for baseball. Wouldn’t it be better to shorten the season so that the world series ends during the first ten days of October?
That red wallpaper looks like it belongs in the movie Memoirs of a Geisha.
Definitely not my taste.
They should have been proactive and started yesterday’s game earlier. God forbid Fox not get their 8:30ish start time.
I think we should all be accustomed to this sort of thing, what with Interleague play, where fans are made to wait during rain delays.