Nobody argues that the Phillies should not win the World Series in a rain-shortened game. But MLB shouldn’t be praying that Carlos Peña drives in BJ Upton and then feel relief when he does so. Now they can finally stop the action. It was a display of their total ineptitude. A fiasco. It is good the Baseball Gods where with them on this cold, rainy and miserable night.
The game should have been halted in the fourth inning when it was already impossible to play. When they knew it was going to rain all night. This way the game could have been suspended, halted, belated, postponed, delayed or however they want to call it.
Maybe they were afraid of ruining Cole Hamels shot at the MVP and the birth of a great, young, marketable player. Maybe they were defending FOX’s telecast. Maybe they had some other cash considerations on the line that we are unaware of.
But while they were protecting their side the game became a sad affair of sleet and mud. The Philadelphia fans who have waited 28 years for this moment were subject to inhuman conditions at the ballpark, the game on FOX became a circus, Cole Hamels won’t get the win and now… we have to play 2 ½ innings that maybe will decide the championship.
The fans are screwed, the game is screwed, and FOX’s telecast is screwed.
Ineptitude at its best.
Obviously the Gods in baseball’s Olympus were with MLB last night. Hopefully they’ll have mercy on all of us fans and prevent a fiasco by allowing the Rays to win whenever the series resumes. This way a team, any team, can win in a full and uninterrupted Game 6 or Game 7. As it should be if the game was ran by normal, intelligent, competent people.
I can’t believe they don’t understand why football and basketball have already replaced baseball as the national past time.
How sad!!
The game should have been halted in the fourth inning when it was already impossible to play. When they knew it was going to rain all night. This way the game could have been suspended, halted, belated, postponed, delayed or however they want to call it.
Maybe they were afraid of ruining Cole Hamels shot at the MVP and the birth of a great, young, marketable player. Maybe they were defending FOX’s telecast. Maybe they had some other cash considerations on the line that we are unaware of.
But while they were protecting their side the game became a sad affair of sleet and mud. The Philadelphia fans who have waited 28 years for this moment were subject to inhuman conditions at the ballpark, the game on FOX became a circus, Cole Hamels won’t get the win and now… we have to play 2 ½ innings that maybe will decide the championship.
The fans are screwed, the game is screwed, and FOX’s telecast is screwed.
Ineptitude at its best.
Obviously the Gods in baseball’s Olympus were with MLB last night. Hopefully they’ll have mercy on all of us fans and prevent a fiasco by allowing the Rays to win whenever the series resumes. This way a team, any team, can win in a full and uninterrupted Game 6 or Game 7. As it should be if the game was ran by normal, intelligent, competent people.
I can’t believe they don’t understand why football and basketball have already replaced baseball as the national past time.
How sad!!
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